My friends, not many of you should become teachers. As you know, we teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others.

All of us often make mistakes. But if a person never makes a mistake in what he says, he is perfect and is also able to control his whole being.

We put a bit into the mouth of a horse to make it obey us, and we are able to make it go where we want.

Or think of a ship: big as it is and driven by such strong winds, it can be steered by a very small rudder, and it goes wherever the pilot wants it to go.

So it is the tongue: small as it is, it can boast about great things.