"Strange endurance of human vanity! a million of much more important conversations have escaped one since then, most likely—but the memory of this little mortification (for such it is, after all) remains quite fresh in the mind, and unforgotten, though it is a trifle, and more than half a score of years old. We forgive injuries, we survive even our remorse for great wrongs that we ourselves commit; but I doubt if we ever forgive slights of this nature put upon us, or forget circumstances in which our self-love has been made to suffer."
W. M. Thackeray.
"A past error may urge a grand retrieval."
George Eliot.
"Memory is not a pocket, but a living instructor, with a prophetic sense of the values which he guards; a guardian angel set there within you to record your life, and by recording it to animate you to uplift it."
Emerson.
APRIL 22
"Hard speech between those who have loved is hideous in the memory, like the sight of greatness and beauty sunk into vice and rags."
George Eliot.