The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

Without work men are utterly undone

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.