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

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

By endurance we conquer.

Optimism is the true moral courage

Optimism is 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

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