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….

Worry is the stomach's worst poison..

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

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

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

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness..

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly de….

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

Lying is the greatest of all sins..

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

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

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 ….

The truthful man is usually a liar..

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find i….

Justice is to be found only in the imagination..

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

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….

Contentment is the only real wealth..

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..

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

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