Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

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

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

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