"The inability to forget is far more..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.”

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”

“The problem with education is school.”

“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”

“Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.”

“Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.”

“Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.”

“Think'st thou it honourable for a noble manStill to remember wrongs?”

“My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.”