Hope Is Nature's Veil For

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.

Good Wishes Alone Will Not Ensure Peace.

Lawyers Have To Make A Living, And Can Only Do So By Inducing People To Believe That A Straight Line Is Crooked.

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.

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.