The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.