I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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 second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.