I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.