"It is not disputed that every person who is using this system today owes it to us and to us alone."

"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."

"Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician."

"We were much pleased with the general performance of the machine."

"No flights of any kind were made except those of our own machine, which, strange to say, did not become a public amusement."