Top 30 Quotes by Matthew Arnold

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

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

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

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.