It is a solemn thought: Dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.

People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.