Conjugial love is the love at the foundation of all good loves, and is
inscribed on all the least life of the human being. Its delights
therefore surpass the delights of all other loves, and it also gives
delight to other loves, in the measure of its presence and union with
them. Into it all delights from first to last are collected, on
account of the superior excellence of its use, which is the
propagation of the human race, and from it of an angelic heaven. As
this service was the supreme end of creation, all the beatitudes,
satisfaction, delights, pleasantnesses and pleasures, which the Lord
the Creator could possibly confer upon man, are gathered into this
love.
--_Conjugial Love, n._ 68