Georg Brandes

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

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

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.