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.

When things are easy, I hate it.

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

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 called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

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