The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.

Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

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

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.