A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
Optimism is the true moral courage
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man