Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure

When you doubt, abstain

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats

Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic

Example is better than following it

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas