“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, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915, Part II, Ch. 5Share
“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
“Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God.”— Khalil GibranShare
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— ConfuciusShare
“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”— Charles DickensShare
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”— Abraham LincolnShare
