"The machine has been working very nicely and we have been making several flights each day."

"We could not but feel that the time was at hand for man to make a practical flight."

"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…"

"The only birds that speak are parrots, and they don’t fly very high."

"The problem of flight was not one of power, but of control."