“For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! — 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 Image
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 Image
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
