If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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