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

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

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.