A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.

He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self-offenses ...

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt.

It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition Hath been most sound.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce Lie still without a fee.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.