Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.


letter to Horace Walpole, 25 February 1768, in H. W. Starr (ed.) Correspondence of Thomas Gray (1971) vol. 3

Thomas Gray Quotes

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.