The Moral Uses of Memory
"Without memory, man is a perpetual infant."—Locke.
"The memory plays a great part in ranking men. Quintilian reckoned it the measure of genius. The poets represented the muses as the daughters of memory."—Emerson.
"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."—Richter.
"A land of promise, a land of memory,
A land of promise flowing with the milk
And honey of delicious memories."
—Tennyson.
"I have a room wherein no one enters save I myself alone;
There sits a blessed memory on a throne.
There my life centers."
—C.G. Rosetti.