| One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated. |
| And then your father followed you...and the great house on the hill went for a Trappist monkery. |
| Have you not seen enough of monkery this afternoon, that you must try still to make that poor girl even such a one as yourselves? |
| If ever monk had got to heaven by monkery, I had been that monk. |
| Down this slope it was hurled headlong by the establishment of monkery. |
| The Holy Qur'ân does not endorse monkery for yet another reason: Some moral qualities are left unhewn if one does not become a part of the society. |
