"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug"

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Anatomy is destiny"

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid"

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open"

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person"