There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.