What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.