The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.
The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's not being given cash - that's nice - it's doing stuff with our peers, watching us, collaborating with us.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.