With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. – Orville Wright
Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. – Edward Everett
