"We were not looking for a fortune, but we were looking for a solution."

"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 flying machine is a thing of the future, and it is a thing that will change the world."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their monotonous lives, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, on the wings of the wind."

"We have been out almost every day experimenting, and have made about 100 flights."