Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

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

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

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

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.

Optimism is true moral courage.