"Memory is the receptacle and sheath of..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.”

“As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.”

“Every man's friend is no man's friend.”

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”

“You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!”

“Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.”

“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.”

“A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”