matthew arnold

“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”

“Our inequality materializes our upper classes, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.”

“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying something.”

“The difficulty for a democracy is, how to find and keep high ideals. The individuals who compose it are… persons who need to follow an ideal, not to set one; and one ideal of greatness, high feeling and fine culture, which an aristocracy once supplied to them, they lose by the very fact of ceasing to be a lower order and becoming a democracy.”

“This strange disease of modern life with its brisk hurry and divided aims.”