...And Slow to Speak

“Nature itself teaches that this is so, because it has enclosed the tongue by a kind of double door, so that it may not wander freely. Nature has put two sets of doors in front of the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to indicate that no word should go forth without great care.
The man who said:

I have set a watch on my mouth, and a door round about my lips, [Ps 141.3]

closed those two doors discreetly.”
~St. Anthony of Padua