Truth Is The Offspring Of Silence And

One [method] Is By A Watch To Keep Time Exactly. But, By Reason Of The Motion Of The Ship, The Variation Of Heat And Cold, Wet And Dry, And The Difference Of Gravity In Different Latitudes, Such A Watch Hath Not Yet Been Made.

Thus Far I Have Explained The Phenomena Of The Heavens And Of Our Sea By The Force Of Gravity, But I Have Not Yet Assigned A Cause To Gravity. Indeed, This Force Arises From Some Cause That Penetrates As Far As The Centers Of The Sun And Planets Without Any Diminution Of Its Power To Act, And That Acts Not In Proportion To The Quantity Of The Surfaces Of The Particles On Which It Acts (as Mechanical Causes Are Wont To Do) But In Proportion To The Quantity Of Solid Matter, And Whose Action Is Extended Everywhere To Immense Distances, Always Decreasing As The Squares Of The Distances.

You Ask Me How, With So Much Study, I Manage To Retene My Health. Morpheus Is My Last Companion; Without 8 Or 9 Hours Of Him Yr Correspondent Is Not Worth One Scavenger's Peruke. My Practices Did At Ye First Hurt My Stomach, But Now I Eat Heartily Enou' As Y' Will See When I Come Down Beside You.

I Am Ashamed To Tell You To How Many Figures I Carried These Calculations [of Pi], Having No Other Business At The Time

Where Both Are Friends, It Is Right To Prefer Truth.