It is useless to send armies against ideas.
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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.
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.