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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.