It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

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

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

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

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.