Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

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

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.