Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.