"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.

"The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length."

On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.

"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light."

Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton.