One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do — Judgment

"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."

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

"Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non pœniteat votique peracti?"

"What we oft do best, By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is Not ours, or not allowd; what worst, as oft, Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up For our best act."

"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."

"Behind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence the doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done. The moment moral issues are raised, even in passing, he who raises them will be confronted with this frightful lack of self-confidence and hence of pride, and also with a kind of mock-modesty that in saying, Who am I to judge? actually means Were all alike, equally bad, and those who try, or pretend that they try, to remain halfway decent are either saints or hypocrites, and in either case should leave us alone."