He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins.
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.