Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 366 |
| AUTHOR: | James Barron Hope (1827–87) |
| QUOTATION: | ’Tis after death that we measure men. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | As commander of the camp, he addressed the Confederate veterans on their first decoration day with this poem.—Samuel A. Link, Pioneers of Southern Literature, vol. 2, p. 423 (1903). |
| SUBJECTS: | Death |