Quotes by Joseph Conrad

"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing."

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."

"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."

"To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot."

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in life."

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