How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.