C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Dead
Let the dead bury their dead.
Bible.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.—Of the dead be nothing said but what is good.
Riley.
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
Hazlitt.
Byron.
We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
Garfield.