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.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

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.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

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.