It is useless to send armies against ideas.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.