A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
The home of a clergyman is constantly judged by its parishioners. If it is too large and richly decorated, it is the subject of jealousy. If it is too small and humble, it is the subject of scorn. If it is too clean and orderly, it is considered a museum where charity is untouched and kept in a box. If it is slovenly, it is the subject of disgust.