Quotes from William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

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

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God