This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.