if you attend to the wearer of the handsome clothes and say to him, "Sit here, this is a good place," and tell the poor man, "You can stand," or "Sit there at my feet,"

My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him?

We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.

We put bridles into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, and so, you see, we can move the whole of their bodies.

So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire!

no man can tame the tongue ??plague of disorder that it is, full of deadly venom!

Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives? Or a vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.