If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.

The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

But what could be more important than your happiness? It's said that an authoritarian moral code is necessary to protect society. But who is society? Isn't it …

The doctrines of Calvinism involved a reversal of values with which Arnold became increasingly concerned. Work had always been a curse and a means, but it had …