It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!
Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.