Joseph Conrad

- seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.

"The Horror, the Horror"

We live as we dream, alone.

strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary, men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.