What is the charm that makes old things so sweet? – Sarah Doudney, “Between the Lights,” c.1875

Nostalgia is a seductive liar. – George Wildman Ball

In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. – Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic