It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. - Sydney Smith

I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

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

Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.