O degenerate race, how can ye, wicked as ye are, utter any thing that is good? for "'tis the overflowing of the heart that the mouth dischargeth."

that which entereth by the mouth is not what defiles a man: but what defiles the man is that which is discharged by the mouth.

do not ye yet conceive, that whatever enters at the mouth, passes to the belly, and is discharged downwards?

but what proceeds out of the mouth, is deriv'd from the heart, and that defiles the man.

and said to him, do you hear what they say? yes, said Jesus; have ye never read, "out of the mouth of babes and sucklings I will make a consort of praise?"