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

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

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

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

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

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