Judgment

Don’t judge a book by its cover

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides

If you violate nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished

He is one of a crowd, a taxpayer, an elector, an anonymity, but not a man.

I shall be very glad to make plain in this discourse the paths I have followed, and to picture my life so that all may judge of it, and by the setting forth of their opinions may furnish me with yet other means of improvement.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools

There are times when patience proves at fault

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss