One man by patient labour and great sagacity invents a sewing machine, a telegraph, or a telephone, and he thus confers the greatest possible advantage upon other men for centuries after.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
The gentleman invents another sentence.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
One doctrine of his was that an epic poet first thinks of a moral and then invents a fable to illustrate it.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen