"I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old" — Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Source: In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 27 (1849)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Quote