"The age of the flying machine is coming; it is not here yet, but it is coming."

"The machine is a success and we are well pleased with it."

"We could not understand how it was that the best scientists could not fly a machine. We thought that they must be working on the wrong principle."

"We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused curiosity."

"We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better."