Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDConduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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.
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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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