The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold
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.
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
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold
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.
Matthew Arnold
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
