Its very members trust each other with caution and reluctance.

The more wealthy among them are drained and dried by the leeches that perpetually fasten upon them.

The leaders, ignorant and bigoted--I speak of them collectively -- present us with no counter-qualities that can conciliate respect.
They have all the craft of monks without their courtesy, and all the subtlety of Jesuits without their learning.
In the whole 'Bibliotlieca theologica' I remember no instance of calumny so gross, so impudent, so unchristian.

Even as a single robber, I mean he who robs one man, gets hanged, while the robber of a million is a great man, so it seems to be with calumny.

This worthy Barrister will be extolled for this audacious slander of thousands, for which, if applied to any one individual, he would be in danger of the pillory.