Joseph Conrad People Quotations

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

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