“No great or big changes have ever been done effortlessly.”

“I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.”

“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.”

“I may not have proved a great explorer but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. -Robert Scott-”

“Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..”

“If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.”