Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends. ' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.