"Your Majesties and gentlemen and ladies and all," said Rynelf, "there's just one thing I want to say. There's not one of us chaps as was pressed on this journey. We're volunteers. And there's some here that are looking very hard at that table and thinking about king's feasts who were talking very loud about adventures on the day we sailed from Cair Paravel, and swearing they wouldn't come home till we'd found the end of the world. And there were some standing on the quay who would have given all they had to come with us. It was thought a finer thing then to have a cabinboy's berth on the Dawn Treader than to wear a knight's belt. I don't now if you get the hang of what I'm saying. But what I mean is that I think chaps who set out like us will look as silly as- as those Dufflepuds- if we come home and say we got to the beginning of the World's End and hadn't the heart to go further."

From CS Lewis' Voyage of the Dawn Treader