I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
-
-
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD