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- Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. — Khalil Gibran
- Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. — James Russell Lowell
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. — Matthew Arnold
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold
- Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. — Matthew Arnold