Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. Matthew Arnold
Greatness is a spiritual condition. Matthew Arnold
Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life. Matthew Arnold
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. Matthew Arnold
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common – discontent. Matthew Arnold
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. Matthew Arnold
That sweet city with her dreaming spires. Matthew Arnold (on Oxford)
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. Matthew Arnold