A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

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

The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.