It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.

Great God! This is an awful place.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.