"Plain question and plain answer make the..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”

“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.”

“Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.”

“Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.”

“I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.”

“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”

“Investing is simple, but not easy.”

“In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.”

“Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.”