I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
School is a foretaste of life.
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.