where
we go we see people who are disappointed, chagrined, shocked, to find
that what they thought would be the angel of happiness turned out to be
only a ghost.

All the misery and the crime of the world rest upon the failure of
human beings to understand the principle that _no man can really be
happy until he harmonizes with the best thing in him, with the divine,
and not with the brute_. No one can be happy who tries to harmonize
his life with his animal instincts. _The God (the good) in him is the
only possible thing that can make him happy_.

Real happiness can not be bribed by anything sordid or low. Nothing
mean or unworthy appeals to it. There is no affinity between them.
Founded upon principle, it is as scientific as the laws of mathematics,
and he who works his problem correctly will get the happiness answer.

There is only one way to secure the correct answer to a mathematical
problem; and that is to work in harmony with mathematical laws. It
would not matter if half the world believed there was some other way to
get the answer, it would never come until the law was followed with the
utmost exactitude.

It does not matter that the great majority of the human race believe
there is some other way of reaching the happiness goal. The fact that
they are discontented, restless, and unhappy shows that they are not
working their problem scientifically.

We are all conscious that there is another man inside of us, that there
accompanies us through life a divine, silent messenger, that other,
higher, better self, which speaks from the depths of our nature and
which gives its consent, its "amen" to every right action, and condemns
every wrong one.

Man is built upon the plan of honesty, of rectitude--the divine plan.
When he perverts his nature by trying to express dishonesty, chicanery,
and cunning, of course he can not be happy.

The very essence of happiness is honesty, sincerity, truthfulness. He
who would have real happiness for his companion must be clean,
straightforward, and sincere. The moment he departs from the right she
will take wings and fly away.

It is just as impossible for a person to reach the normal state of
harmony while he is practising selfish, grasping methods, as it is to
produce harmony in an orchestra with instruments that are all jangled
and out of tune. To be happy, we must be in tune with the infinite
within us, in harmony with our better selves. There is no way to get