When his father died, he could not [bear to] read his father's books-- the touch of his hand seemed still to be on them. 

  --From The Book of Rites  禮記, chapter Yuzao 玉藻, translation by James Legge (1815-1897). The book is one of the Chinese classics; it was compiled before 221 BC.

父歿而不能讀父之書，手澤存焉爾。