Quotes by

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. – Matthew Arnold

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. – Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. – Matthew Arnold

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. – Matthew Arnold

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. – Matthew Arnold

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. – Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry. – Matthew Arnold

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. – Matthew Arnold

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. – Matthew Arnold