I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

- Matthew Henson

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

- Matthew Henson

There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the hor…

- Matthew Henson