“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”

“… memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

“Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.”

“There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life…when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.”

“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory”

“The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.”

“The repetition of the days have taught me to fear nothing in life except the fear of my own ignorance.”

“Nothing stands still, except in our memory.”

“If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest”

“We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.”