“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”

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

“The creations of a person will enclose eternal memory of him.”

“There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.”

“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much, as consigning them to eternal damnation.”

“When power is gone the memory of power lingers.”

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”

“A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour.”