You treat his opinions (though he never thrusts them on you) about "the Church," and his duty, and the souls of his parishioners, with civil indifference, as much ado about nothing; and his rubrical eccentricities as puerilities.
1857, Charles Kingsley, “The Way to Win Them”, in Two Years Ago, volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., page 140