I am incapable of art, and 'tis because I will not be capable of it.

Could I deceive one minute, I should never regain my own good opinion; and who could bear to live with one they despised?
If you can resolve to live with a companion that will have all the deference due to your superiority of good sense, and that your proposals can be agreeable to those on whom I depend, I have nothing to say against them.".