others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.- Goethe.

In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully. Thomas à

Kempis.

The contemporary mind may in rare cases be taken by storm; but posterity never. The tribunal of the present is accessible to influence; that of the future is incorrupt.-Gladstone.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.- Wellington.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.- Whately.

To judge by the event, is an error all abuse and all commit; for in every instance, courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity.-Col

ton.

There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but they never receive them as they are.-Joubert.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.-Terence.

Never forget the day of judgment. Keep it always in view. Frame every action and plan with a reference to its unchanging decisions.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice, but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death! -Carlyle.

Human judgment, like Luther's drunken peasant, when saved from falling on one side, topples over on the other.-Mazzini.

JURISPRUDENCE.-The law is made to protect the innocent by punishing the guilty.-Daniel Webster.

The point most liable to objection in the jury system, is the power which any one or more of the twelve have to starve the rest into compliance with their opinion; so that the verdict may possibly be given by strength of constitution, not by conviction of conscience: and "wretches hang that jurymen may dine."-Lord Orrery.

The criminal law is not founded on the principle of vengeance; it uses evil only as the means of preventing greater evil.Daniel Webster.

The institution of the jury, if confined to criminal cases, is always in danger; but when once it is introduced into civil proceedings, it defies the aggressions of time and of man.-De Tocqueville.

Whenever a jury, through whimsical or ill-founded scruples, suffer the guilty to escape, they become responsible for the augmented danger of the innocent.-Daniel Webster.

JUSTICE.-To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.-Addison.

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.-Bacon.

If judges would make their decisions just, they should behold neither plaintiff, defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause itself.-B. Livingston.

Justice discards party, friendship, and kindred, and is therefore represented as blind.-Addison.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.-Goethe.

Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government.

Justice is the constant desire and effort to render to every man his due.-Justinian.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any departure from it, under any circumstance, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.-Burke.

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.-Longfellow.

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations, as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; aud a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang of robbers.-Franklin.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.Froude.

The only way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of justice, is by showing them, in pretty plain terms, the consequence of injustice.-Sydney Smith.

Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's-Shakespeare.