To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. — Matthew Arnold
Children of men! the unseen power, whose eye forever doth accompany mankind, hath look’d on no religion — Matthew Arnold
Is it so small a thing / to have enjoyed the sun, / to have lived light in the spring — Matthew Arnold
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold