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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to who