Matthew Arnold Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.”

“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”

“Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.”

“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.”

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

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

“Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.”

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

“Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.”