It invariably comes to pass in learning to remember by the Associative method that after a time images are referred to images, and these to others again, so that they form entire categories in which the most vigorous mind gets lost.
The other method is that of _direct_ Memory guided by Will, in which no regard is paid to Association, especially in the beginning.

Thus to remember anything, or rather to learn _how_ to do so, we take something which is very easy to retain--the easier the better--be it a jingling nursery rhyme, a proverb, or a text.

Let this be learned to perfection, backwards and forwards, or by permutation of words, and repeated the next day.

Note that the repetition or _reviewing_ is of more importance than aught else.
On the second day add another proverb or verse to the preceding, and so on, day by day, always reviewing and never learning another syllable until you are sure that you perfectly or most familiarly retain all which you have _memorized_.

The result will be, if you persevere, that before long you will begin to find it easier to remember anything.