I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, unless we were meant to be immortal.

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

If life were eternal all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends its fascination.

Immortality is a condition fairly difficult to come by, though the longing for it is in one way or another almost universal and considered by some, therefore, to be beneath one's dignity.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.