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

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold

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

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

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
Matthew Arnold

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold

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

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.
Matthew Arnold