Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
William Greenough Thayer SheddA man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
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