An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph ConradWe live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
Joseph ConradThere is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.
Joseph ConradI do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
Joseph Conrad