“False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.”
“You know, the only thing worse than a self-righteous virgin is a self-righteous fake virgin.”
“The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.”
“To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.”
“Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher.”
“I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.”