His tongue, his prattling tongue,
had chang'd him quite
To sooty blackness, from the purest white.
-- Joseph Addison
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity ... it defileth the whole body ... it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
-- James 3:6, 8
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
-- Matthew 5:37
