Before You Blame

Before you start to criticize... What other people
do... Consider first, how many faults... And sins
belong to you... Remember too, the virtues and...
the good points they possess... And whether
yours are greater or... Of equal count or less...
For it is easy to condemn... And now and then a
pleasure... To judge another person by... Our own
peculiar measure... But who are we to
take apart... And try to weigh the worth...
Of other creatures like ourselves...Who walk
upon the earth?...Be not too quick to cast a
stone... At those who chance to pass
... They may return it, and your house
...May be a house of glass.

James J. Metcalfe