"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity ..." — Joseph Conrad

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.