Hardy.

The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters.  The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged?

Jean-Sylvain Bailly speaking about Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, the inventor on the hot-air balloon who was born on this day in 1740

What a compliment.