A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
William Greenough Thayer SheddThere 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 Shedd