G.K. Chesterton

Then he said,

"But there are four lamps of thanksgiving always before me. The first is for my creation out of the same earth with such a woman as you. The second is that I have not, with all my faults, gone after strange women. You cannot think how a man's self restraint is rewarded in this. The third is that I have tried to love everything alive, and it has been but a dim preparation for loving you. The fourth is... but no words can express that. Here ends my previous existence. Take it: it led me to you."