"When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity"

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

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

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

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

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

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"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"

"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"

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do"