“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate awaiting them on this earth.”— Joseph Conrad, Chance, 1913, Part I, 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
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“The long, dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather.”— C.S. LewisShare
“My hair is grey, but not with years, nor grew it white in a single night, as men's have grown from sudden fears.”— Lord ByronShare
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”— Mary OliverShare
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”— Louisa May AlcottShare
“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.”— Nathaniel HawthorneShare
