Erasmus Quote

Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more...

The praise of folly, made Engl. by W. Kennet, adorn'd from the designs of H. Holbeine (ed. 1740)