Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

It makes more sense to buy a wonderful business at a fair price than it does to buy a fair business at a wonderful price.

Successful investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Never invest in a business you can’t understand.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.