"Memory is a net: one that finds..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”

“Science is the topography of ignorance.”

“Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.”

“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.”

“No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.”

“If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.”

“Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.”

“In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.”