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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.

Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold; And maybe they hear, and wonder why, And marvel, out in the cold.

My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye; Each little speck and blemish find, To our own stronger errors blind.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours.

With thumb turned.

What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?

We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment.

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.