“Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.”

“So we arrived, and planted our flag at the geographical South Pole. Thanks be to God!”

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

“Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it”