A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman. - Louisa May Alcott

Because in spite of this longing, I know that I shall purchase happiness at high price if I return; that new falsehood may betray me, new tyranny oppress me, and above all I feel that with this man I must lose more and more the love of all good things, so strong is his influence, so unprincipled his nature. My only hope is that I may save his soul and yet not lose my own. Can I, dare I do this?

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.