But he cared little for earthly fame and honors, and felt no pride in the vastness of his knowledge.

All that he had learned only made him feel how little he knew in comparison to what remained to be known.
"I seem to myself like a child," observed he, "playing on the sea-shore, and picking up here and there a curious shell or a pretty pebble, while the boundless ocean of Truth lies undiscovered before me." At last, in 1727, when he was fourscore and five years old, Sir Isaac Newton died,--or rather, he ceased to live on earth.

We may be permitted to believe that he is still searching out the infinite wisdom and goodness of the Creator as earnestly, and with even more success, than while his spirit animated a mortal body.

He has left a fame behind him which will be as endurable as if his name were written in letters of light formed by the stars upon the midnight sky.
"I love to hear about mechanical contrivances, such as the water-clock and the little windmill," remarked George.

"I suppose, if Sir Isaac Newton had only thought of it, he might have found out the steam-engine, and railroads, and all the other famous inventions that have come into use since his day." "Very possibly he might," replied Mr.Temple; "and no doubt a great many people would think it more useful to manufacture steam-engines than to search out the system of the universe.