Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. - Joseph Conrad. View more images...

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. - Joseph Conrad. View more images...

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. - Joseph Conrad. View more images...

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. - Joseph Conrad. View more images...

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. - Joseph Conrad. View more images...

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. - Joseph Conrad. View more images...

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. - Joseph Conrad. View more images...

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. - Joseph Conrad. View more images...