We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

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.