"My attention was first called to this by watching the effect produced by the celebration of the Mass in a Roman Catho…"

"As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys."

"The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is proper therefore that he should care for all, ev…"

"“I know you priests believe six impossible things every day before breakfast,” I said. “Some of you, anyway. I think …"

"Why against priests the gen'ral heat so strong, But that they shew us all we do is wrong? Wit well apply‘d does weigh…"

"As I had forsaken the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those esteemed the most experienced people;…"

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, …"

"I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And some…"

"He lectures about renunciation, but he himself is being steadily promoted; he teaches all that about despising worldl…"