"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"We do not remember days, we remember moments"

"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"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"