I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.