For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

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.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

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

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.