Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

- Joseph Conrad

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

- Joseph Conrad

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

- Joseph Conrad

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

- Joseph Conrad

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

- Joseph Conrad

Going home must be like going to render an account.

- Joseph Conrad

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

- Joseph Conrad

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

- Joseph Conrad

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

- Joseph Conrad

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

- Joseph Conrad