Here closed in death th' attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face. - Samuel Johnson

The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life.