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

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

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

When things are easy, I hate it.

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.