Let a professor of law or physics find his place in a lecture-room, and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases, and he will pour them forth to empty benches.

Let a barrister attempt to talk without talking well, and he will talk but seldom.

A judge's charge need be listened to perforce by none but the jury, prisoner, and gaoler.

A member of Parliament can be coughed down or counted out.
Town-councillors can be tabooed.

But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman.