Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
Are ye too changed, ye hills? See, tis no foot of unfamiliar men> Tonight from Oxford up your pathway strays! Here came I often, often, in old days; Thyrsis and I; we still had Thyrsis then.
Matthew Arnold
Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade, With a free, onward impulse brushing through, By night, the silverd branches of the glade.
Matthew Arnold
We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.
Matthew Arnold
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things
Matthew Arnold
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
Matthew Arnold