Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. – Alfred Nobel
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use. – Alfred Nobel
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. – Alfred Nobel
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931