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

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

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.