Optimism is the true moral courage

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

By endurance we conquer.

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

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

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

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.