"No airship will ever fly from New York to Paris. That seems to me to be impossible. What limits the flight is the motor. No known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping, a…"

"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."

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

"We were very much surprised at the ease with which the machine was controlled."

"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."