Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

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

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

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.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

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

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

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

Being gifted needs courage.

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

You know, I went through life and found that the bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards. So, I didn't mind to be so.

Jesus became flesh to reveal God in His love and kindness

All the earth is to bring praise to God

Just one act of kindness can change someone's whole world.

There is no way to peace peace is the way.

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

You have to change those diapers every day. When those directions on the side of the Pampers box say, 'holds 6-12 pounds' they're not kidding!

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.