This man is no eavesdropper; your evil secrets have only a sobering and a saddening and a silencing effect upon him.

Your house might be full of skeletons for anything he would ever discover or remember.

The beam in his own eye is so big that he cannot see past it to speak about your small mote.

'The inward Christian,' says A Kempis, 'preferreth the care of himself before all other cares.

He that diligently attendeth to himself can easily keep silence concerning other men.