Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ... — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from... — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
