“There isn't a text in the Bible better worth keeping always in mind than that one, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.”

“Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six”

“It is to my mind much to be regretted, and it is a regret which I believe every Judge on the bench shares, that text-books are more and more quoted in Court—I mean, of course, text-books by living authors—and some Judges have gone so far as to say that they shall not be quoted.”

“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”

“We must resolutely refuse to judge Jesus by the Bible. We must judge the Bible by Jesus; by the total effect of a consistent personality made upon us from all sources, including our own experience.”

“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”

“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”

“Now the Senate is looking for 'moderate' judges, 'mainstream' judges. What in the world is a moderate interpretation of a constitutional text? Halfway between what it says and what we'd like it to say?”

“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”

“It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.”