On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
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.
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.