He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.

Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.

A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.

Time robs us of all, even of memory.

Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.

Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.