A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph.