I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's…

Quote by Joseph Conrad

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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the...

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the...

All a man can betray is his conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men...

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of...

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to...

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to...

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

We live, as we dream alone

We live, as we dream alone

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an...

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an...

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

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

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being...

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being...

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the...

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the...

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love...

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love...

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not...

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not...

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by...

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by...