For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use..

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results..

Lying is the greatest of all sins..

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz..

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected..

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes fr….

My home is where I work, and I work everywhere..

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace..

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge..

Contentment is the only real wealth..

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked..

The truthful man is usually a liar..

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attack….

I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, all….

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man..

Worry is the stomach's worst poison..

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one ….

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied..

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render ….

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age..

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion..