The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.
Joseph ConradAll ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph ConradI have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.
Joseph Conrad