“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.”— Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, 1904, Part First, Ch. 6Share
“All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity.”— Joseph ConradShare
“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.”— Joseph ConradShare
“Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.”— W. H. AudenShare
“Friendship craves / The commerce of the mind, not the exchange / Of emulous feasts that foster sycophants.”— Alfred AustinShare
“Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.”— Benjamin FranklinShare
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— EpictetusShare
