“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth / A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.”

— Thomas Gray, The Epitaph, St. 1

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?”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”

“The long, dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather.”

“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”

“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior.”

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”