I can hold my fellowship for four years longer without orders, and in four years' time I think I can earn my bread." "I don't doubt that, Harry." "Then why should I not follow my wishes in this matter?
The truth is, I do not feel myself qualified to be a good clergyman." "It is not that you have doubts, is it ?" "I might have them if I came to think much about it--as I must do if I took orders.

And I do not wish to be crippled in doing what I think lawful by conventional rules.

A rebellious clergyman is, I think, a sorry abject.

It seems to me that he is a bird fouling his own nest.
Now, I know I should be a rebellious clergyman." "In our church the life of a clergyman is as the life of any other gentleman--within very broad limits." "Then why did Bishop Proudie interfere with your hunting ?" "Limits may be very broad, Harry, and yet exclude hunting.

Bishop Proudie was vulgar and intrusive, such being the nature of his wife, who instructs him; but if you were in orders I should be very sorry to see you take to hunting." "It seems to me that a clergyman has nothing to do in life unless he is always preaching and teaching.