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.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

(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.

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

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

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

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