“The judge is nothing but the law speaking.”

He that does not repent, sins again.

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

Believe things, rather than man.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn’t read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.

You can’t judge people by their cover.

Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

We’ve had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that’s why we have an appeal processes

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.