There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
William Greenough Thayer SheddThe piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.
William Greenough Thayer SheddSay what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd