Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit. [ Willmott ]

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. [ Horace Greeley ]

Ah! If the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well. [ Horace Greeley ]

Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers - each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book. [ Horace Smith ]

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in congress. [ Wendell Phillips ]

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than the pulpit. [ Goldsmith ]

Profane eloquence is transferred from the bar, where it formerly reigned, to the pulpit, where it never ought to come. [ Bruyere ]

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are sermons in stones, in healthy books, and good in everything. [ Colton ]

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit; at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England, and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream. [ Bartol ]