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 it difficult to get on in life.
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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 destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
Contentment is the only real wealth