Excerpt from Happiness RoadA few weeks before Alice Hegan Rice died she said, "If anything should happen to me will you finish my book?" We were walking up and down our living room at the time, a habit we enjoyed between spells of reading aloud, and her words were as near as we ever approached the inevitable realization that one of us must go first.Into this book, a brave and beautiful attempt to help others, she had been putting her heart, and each day I had begrudged the effort she was making. But she loved the mere act of writing so much, and had been so limited in her other activities by a long cardiac trouble, that, whatever my anxiety, I always intervened with great reluctance. Too, she counted herself a happy, fortunate woman, and it is more than a consolation to know that she could continue writing happily almost to the end.Through many years she had gathered into her notebooks the wise and spiritual sayings of those who had practised and written about the art of right living, thinking and helping. It is many of these sayings that she has incorporated, together with her own thoughts, into these brief essays.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.