It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits

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

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

The institution of Royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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