How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

- Matthew Arnold

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

- Matthew Arnold

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

- Matthew Arnold

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

- Matthew Arnold

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

- Matthew Arnold

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

- Matthew Arnold

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

- Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

- Matthew Arnold

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

- Matthew Arnold