I explore it in all its bearings.

My mind becomes pervaded with it.

Then the effort which I make the people are pleased to call the fruit of genius; it is the fruit of labor and thought." The law of labor is equally binding on genius and mediocrity.
"Fill up the cask! fill up the cask!" said old Dr.Bellamy when asked by a young clergyman for advice about the composition of sermons.

"Fill up the cask! and then if you tap it anywhere you will get a good stream.
But if you put in but little, it will dribble, dribble, dribble, and you must tap, tap, tap, and then you get but a small stream, after all." "The merchant is in a dangerous position," says Dr.W.W.Patton, "whose means are in goods trusted out all over the country on long credits, and who in an emergency has no money in the bank upon which to draw.

A heavy deposit, subject to a sight-draft, is the only position of strength.