Good Wishes Alone Will Not Ensure Peace.

I Would Not Leave Anything To A Man Of Action As He Would Be Tempted To Give Up Work; On The Other Hand, I Would Like To Help Dreamers As They Find It Difficult To Get On In Life.

I Am Not Aware That I Have Deserved Any Notoriey, And I Have No Taste For Its Buzz.

The First Time I Saw Nitroglycerine Was In The Beginning Of The Crimean War. Professor Zinin In St. Petersburg Exhibited Some To My Father And Me, And Struck Some On An Anvil To Show That Only The Part Touched By The Hammer Exploded Without Spreading.

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.

A Recluse Without Books And Ink Is Already In Life A Dead Man.