"A book is a conversation between the author and the reader."
A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it.
The freedom then of man, and liberty of acting according to his own will, is grounded on his having reason, which is able to instruct him in that law he is to govern himself by, and make him know how far he is left to the freedom of his own will.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.