There are a great many constables out for the arrest of such defrauders.

That stolen paragraph that you think will never be recognized has been committed to memory by that old lady with green goggles in the front pew.

That very same brilliant passage you have just pronounced was delivered by the clergyman who preached in that pulpit the Sabbath before: two thieves met in one hen-roost.

All we know of Doctor Hayward of Queen Elizabeth's time is that he purloined from Tacitus.

Be dishonest once in this respect, and when you do really say something original and good the world will cry out, "Yes, very fine! I always did like Joseph Addison!" Sermons are successful not according to the head involved in them, but according to the heart implied, and no one can feel aright while preaching a literary dishonesty.