The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.—Isaiah, xl. 8.
Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.—Matthew, xii. 36.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
Shakspere.
Almighty Lord! the sun shall fail,
The moon forget her nightly tale,
And deepest silence bush on high
The radiant chorus of the sky;
But fixed for everlasting years,
Unmoved amid the wreck of spheres,