It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. Persuasion

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. Exiles

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

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. Little Dorrit