“There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.”
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.”
“Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!”
“On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it”
“I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”
“Better to be a 'has been' than never to have 'been' at all”