"I know of only one bird — the parrot — that talks; and it can't fly very high."

"It was impossible to convince the people generally that we were not a pair of lunatics."

"It is not in the nature of man to be content with things as they are."

"The machine had scarcely cleared the ground when it began to turn up, and the next instant it darted into the ground."

"We do not intend to fly for money, but for the love of the art."