You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
English translation: Constance Garnett
Childhood
A quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From the source
The Brothers Karamazov, Epilogue, Chapter III, “Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech at the Stone”.
English translation by Constance Garnett. Historical translation reproduced in the linked source.
Alyosha speaks to the boys after Ilusha’s funeral.