"I heartily wish that by any process we could put down gossip, but I suppose that it will never be done so long as the human race continues what it is, for James tells us that 'every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.' What can't be cured must be endured, and the best way of enduring it is not to listen to it...
The talk of the village (and family, I would add) is never worthy of notice, and you should never take any interest in it except to mourn over the malice and heartlessness of which it is too often the indicator."
Charles Spurgeon
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