"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
-Willa Cather, My Antonia
"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory."
-Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain
"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."
-Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain
"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
-Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
-John Henry Cardinal Newman, Oxford University Sermons
"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."
-Rotarian
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
-John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections
"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."
-Virgil, Aenid