Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

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