We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.