Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLDConduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
MATTHEW ARNOLD