Commonplace
locus communis
Meminesse
(To Remember)
Preserving sayings, proverbs, ideas for speeches, or any such fancy, was a valued practice in the ancient and medieval worlds, and enlightenment period.
It was a way of keeping important notes in one place.
A sampling of names worthy of remembrance and whose messages will be delivered through the Portal across Time.
Chesterton - Scruton - Lewis - Milne - Tolstoy - Carroll - Louis Stevenson - Potter - Montaigne - Shakespeare - De Tocqueville - Milton - Mills - Dante
Ancient Greek Lekythos - used to store oil and for funerary rites (R D Milne Antiquities Museum, Queensland).