To divines of all kinds with due deference bowing,
The greatest of churchmen are not the most knowing.

Cf. Rabelais, 1, 39 (Brother Jean des Entommeures, the monk, to Gargantua); and Montaigne, 1, 24: Magis magnos clericos non sunt magis magnos sapientes.—"The greatest churchmen are not always the wisest of men." | Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 1456