Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. – Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. – Joseph Conrad
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. – Joseph Conrad
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. – Marcus Tullius Cicero