If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

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

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.

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

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.