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

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

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

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

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

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.