“If words have any meaning and marriage has any foundation,
what am I to understand when you said in your letter
in which you said, “I accept you”. You accept me as what?
As a Great man, as a learned man, or as a Good looking man? 
What is your spring of action?

As a poet has said. “Love built on beauty dies as soon as Beauty dies”.
The same is true of love built on Greatness or Learning. 
These things after some time begin to fail. 
They cannot be the foundation of marriage. 
Marriage can be founded only on love 
which can be described in no other terms except the longing to belong
Are you actuated by this feeling? 
Nothing else will either do or suffice.