"It was impossible to convince the people generally that we were not a pair of lunatics."

"The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power."

"We have been trying to make a machine that will fly, and we have succeeded."

"The machine had scarcely cleared the ground when it began to turn up, and the next instant it darted into the ground."

"The machine itself was nothing; the method was everything."