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

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

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

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

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.

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