"He Never Told Me I Ought to Do Better"
It is always better to help others to criticize themselves than it is to criticize them. They will believe themselves; they are not likely to believe you. The way to bring about this healthy and helpful condition of self-criticism, with its accompanying desire for improvement, is to show by our lives, silently, the better way, while resolutely refraining from urging it on others. It was a high tribute paid to a man who is not now living, when one who had known him intimately said, "He never told me that I ought to do better, but I always came away from any conversation with him wanting to do better." If we would do this for others, let us seal our lips to criticism, and incarnate the better way in our lives.—Anon.