Quotes from Matthew Arnold

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

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

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our present state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose?

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have liv'd light in the spring, To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes...?

To see the object as in itself it really is

The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.

Choose equality.

And we forget because we must

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

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.