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.
From Joseph Conrad
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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