 Author Charles Dickens, in a letter to his son Edward |
Try to do to others as you would like to have them do to you; and do not
be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better for you that they
should fail in obeying the greatest rule laid down by our Saviour than
that you should.
I have put a New Testament among your books for the very same reasons, and with the very same hopes, that made me write an easy account of it for you when you were a child, because it is the best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world; and because it teaches you the best lessons by which any human creature who tries to be truthful and faithful to duty can possibly be guided.
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