Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.

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

Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.

Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

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

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.

I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.

Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.