Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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