_A child should not need to choose between right and wrong. It
should not be capable of wrong; it should not conceive of wrong.
Obedient, as bark to helm, not by sudden strain or effort, but
in the freedom of its bright course of constant life; true, with
an undistinguished, painless, unboastful truth, in a crystalline
household world of truth; gentle, through daily entreatings
of gentleness, and honourable trusts, and pretty prides of
child-fellowship in offices of good; strong, not in bitter and
doubtful contest with temptation, but in peace of heart, and
armour of habitual right, from which temptation falls like thawing
hail; self-commanding, not in sick restraint of mean appetites
and covetous thoughts, but in vital joy of unluxurious life, and
contentment in narrow possession, wisely esteemed.--John Ruskin, in
an introduction to Grimm’s_ “German Popular Tales,” _illustrated by
Cruikshank_.