“And hie him home, at evening's close, / To sweet repast and calm repose.”

— Thomas Gray, Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (1754), Line 87

About Thomas Gray

1716 – 1771

English poet, author of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".

“The still small voice of gratitude.”

“Alas, regardless of their doom, / The little victims play!”

“Yet ah! why should they know their fate?”

“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.”

“Unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”