The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

A broad hat does not always cover a venerable head.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.