Joseph Conrad Quote

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife