ABSTRACT
The three endowments of the soul are a sound intelligence, a merry heart and a free, self-governing will. If to these we add a healthy body which will aid the intelligence by its senses, the emotions of the heart by its vitality and the will by its activity, people have all the inner endowments. Happiness is the universal watchword, but it is not to be found anywhere in nature; the best man can achieve is to merit happiness. Only in what he does, not in what he enjoys or suffers, only in the self which is independent of his nature and not fashioned by destiny, can he find contentment. A man whose actions have no fixed principle and, hence, no uniformity, has no character. Such a man may have a good heart, yet no character, because he is dependent upon his impulses and does not act according to maxims, to principles. Character calls for constancy and unity of principles.
