“The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.”

“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”

“if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike”

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

“For this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.”

“In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are include...how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living Earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam, who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumour of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.”