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

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

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

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.

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

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.