Being gifted needs courage.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

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

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

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

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.