School Is A Foretaste Of Life.

He Who Does Not Understand A Joke, He Does Not Understand Danish.

I Encountered Among My Comrades The Most Varied Human Traits, From Frankness To Reserve, From Goodness, Uprightness And Kindness, To Brutality And Baseness.

But I Did Not Find Any Positive Inspiration In My Studies Until I Approached My Nineteenth Year.

I Was A Town Child, It Is True, But That Did Not Prevent Me Enjoying Open-air Life, With Plants And Animals.

The Society Of The Culture-philistines Makes Life A Burden To Exceptional Men.