And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

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.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

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

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.