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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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.

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

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.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

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