A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

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

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

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

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.

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.