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.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

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.

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

Without work men are utterly undone

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

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.