The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.
... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Memory is more indelible than ink.
The words that we have spoken shall never perish from the earth.
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.