He abused his liberty on this occasion by presuming to say that Leibnitz had the same observation .-- No, sir, I replied, he has not.

But he said a mighty good thing about mathematics, that sounds something like it, and you found it, NOT IN THE ORIGINAL, but quoted by Dr.Thomas Reid.
I will tell the company what he did say, one of these days.
-- If I belong to a Society of Mutual Admiration ?--I blush to say that I do not at this present moment.

I once did, however.

It was the first association to which I ever heard the term applied; a body of scientific young men in a great foreign city who admired their teacher, and to some extent each other.

Many of them deserved it; they have become famous since.