The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

School is a foretaste of life.

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.