Quotes by Matthew Arnold

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

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.

With women the heart argues, not the mind.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

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

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

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?