“We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.”

“A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!”

“Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.”

“I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.”

“Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't and dead men can't.”

“A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.”