William Greenough Thayer Shedd

"The law is obligated to punish the transgressor as much as the transgressor is obligated to obey the law — law has no option. Justice has but one function. The necessity of penalty is as great as the …"

"There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline."

"Is it for the cultivated man, the man of broad and general views, to throw himself without reserve and with all his weight, into what, for aught he yet knows, may be only a cross-current and eddy, ins…"

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."

"The 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."