Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.