• How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

    Edward Young: How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
    'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 7, l. 97.