The big thing is to go confidently to work on a task, the results of which nobody can possibly foresee--a task so vague and improbable of definite results that small men hesitate.

It is in this spirit that very many of the biggest things in history have been done.

Wasn't the purchase of Louisiana such a thing?
Who'd ever have supposed that that could have been brought about?
I applaud your errand and I am eagerly impatient to hear the results.

When will _you_ get here?
I assume that Mrs.House will not go with you to Berlin.

No matter so you both turn up here for a good long stay.
I've taken me a little bit of a house about twenty miles out of town whither we are going in July as soon as we can get away from London.