We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The dead govern the living.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.