A Man's Most Open Actions Have A

I Was Constantly Watching Myself, My Secret Self, As Dependent On My Actions As My Own Personality

Conrad Placed On The Title Page An Epigraph Taken From Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "sleep After Toyle, Port After Stormie Seas, Ease After Warre, Death After Life, Does Greatly Please" This Also Became Conrad's Epitaph.

The Mind Of Man Is Capable Of Anything--because Everything Is In It, All The Past As Well As The Future

He Who Wants To Persuade Should Put His Trust Not In The Right Argument, But In The Right Word. The Power Of Sound Has Always Been Greater Than The Power Of Sense.

Action Is Consolatory. It Is The Enemy Of Thought And The Friend Of Flattering Illusions.