Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

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

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

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

School is a foretaste of life.

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

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.