"I am looking for someone to share..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.”

“It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.”

“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”

“The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.”

“It's a dangerous business, going out your door.”

“I'm going on an adventure!”

“In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.”

“Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.”

“A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.”