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

(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.

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

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

Optimism is the true moral courage

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

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.