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

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.

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

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

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