A promise made to a child or to the lowliest, most unworthy person should be kept, no matter how hard it may be to keep it “I entirely forgot my promise,” one says, as if forgetting it were much less a sin than deliberately breaking it. We have no right to forget any promise we make to another. If we cannot trust our memory, we should make note of our promises and engagements on paper, and then keep them scrupulously, on the very minute. To break even the slightest promise is grievously to wrong and hurt another life.