"The greatest pleasure in life is to do what people say you cannot do."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their dim terrestrial captivity, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space…"

"We have been making flights at an altitude of about 50 feet."

"We are not content to walk upon the ground."

"The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years — provided, of course, we c…"