To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.