I was brought up in the Christian religion, and although I can scarcely sanction all the improper attempts to gain the emancipation of woman, all paganlike reminiscences also seem foolish to me. My brief and simple opinion is that woman is certainly as good as man-period. Any more discursive elaboration of the difference between the sexes or deliberation on which sex is superior is an idle intellectual occupation for loafers and bachelors. Stages on Life's Way

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Julius Caesar

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart The Alchemist

“Wherefore each of you, when his turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode, and get the habit of seeing in the dark.” Republic