It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Contentment is the only real wealth.
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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.