If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. – Alexander Chase, "Perspectives," 1966
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience – it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
