_Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton._ =1008.= There Priest of Nature! dost thou shine, _Newton!_ a King among the Kings divine. --SOUTHEY. _Translation of a Greek Ode on Astronomy._ =1009.= O’er Nature’s laws God cast the veil of night, Out-blaz’d a Newton’s soul--and all was light. --HILL, AARON. _On Sir Isaac Newton._ =1010.= Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.--LEIBNITZ. _Quoted by F. R. Moulton: Introduction to Astronomy (New York, 1906), p. 199._ =1011.= Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.--LAGRANGE. _Quoted by F. R. Moulton: Introduction to Astronomy (New York, 1906), p. 199._ =1012.= A monument to Newton! a monument to Shakespeare! Look up to Heaven--look into the Human Heart. Till the planets and the passions--the affections and the fixed stars are extinguished--their names cannot die.--WILSON, JOHN. _Noctes Ambrosianae._ =1013.= Such men as Newton and Linnaeus are incidental, but august, teachers of religion.--WILSON, JOHN. _Essays: Education of the People._ =1014.= Sir Isaac Newton, the supreme representative of Anglo-Saxon genius.--ELLIS, HAVELOCK. _Study of British Genius (London, 1904), p. 49._ =1015.= Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.... --BALL, W. W. R. _History of Mathematics (London, 1901), p. 335._ =1016.= There was a time when he [Newton] was possessed with the old fooleries of astrology; and another when he was so far gone in those of chemistry, as to be upon the hunt after the philosopher’s stone.--REV. J. SPENCE. _Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men (London, 1868), p. 54._ =1017.= For several years this great man [Newton] was intensely occupied in endeavoring to discover a way of changing the base metals into gold.... There were periods when his furnace fires were not allowed to go out for six weeks; he and his secretary sitting up alternate nights to replenish them.--PARTON, JAMES. _Sir Isaac Newton._