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

"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age."

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

"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."

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.