Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.