Judge Names 13 Mistakes in Life

1914

San Francisco. Jan. 5. — Here are what Presiding Judge Paul J. McCormick has announced as "Thirteen Mistakes of Life," easily made and not readily rectified, as a result of his long experience on the bench and at bar:

To attempt to set up your own standard of right and wrong and expect everybody to conform to it.

To try to measure the enjoyment of others by your own.

To expect uniformity of opinions in this world.

To fail to make allowance for inexperience.

To endeavor to mold all dispositions alike.

Not to yield in unimportant trifles.

To look for perfection in our own actions.

To worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied.

Not to help everybody, wherever, however and whenever we can.

To consider anything impossible that we cannot ourselves perform.

To believe only what our finite minds can grasp.

Not to make allowance for the weaknesses of others.

To estimate by some outside quality, when it is that within which makes the man.