“Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.” — Joseph Conrad

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.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

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.