Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFrance, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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