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

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

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

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

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

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

Great God! This is an awful place.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.