It is useless to send armies against ideas.
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.