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But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

Memory like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment -- but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.