Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.

I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

I was x years old in the year x2.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.