Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.