The entire scheme of Christianity disappeared from my firmament; but, in the immediately previous years, I had been a reader of Swedenborg, and I held immovably an intuition of immortality,or, if the term intuition be denied me, the conviction that immortality was the foundation of human existence, grounded in my earliest thoughts, and as clear as the sense of light,and this never failed me.

Did they think that immortality was a gas? Of course the real truth is that science has introduced no new principle into the matter at all.

Immortality is a symbol for the transmitted impulse which the person communicates to the race.

"But you must not suppose," he continued, "that this earthly immortality is without its pains, its fears, I may say its horrors.

In a letter to Miss Seward, he said: "The immortality of poetry is not so firm a point in my creed as the immortality of the soul.

Personal immortality is the most alluring hope ever dangled before humanity.

It flourished in ages when the poor had no redress, and were trodden under the feet of hard feudal masters; when there was no law but of brute force; when luxuries were few and comforts rare,an age of hardship, privation, poverty, suffering; an age of isolations and sorrows, when men were forced to look beyond the grave for peace and hope, when immortality through a Redeemer was the highest inspiration of life.

If immortality be not a gift, but a necessary existence, as Socrates supposed, it seems strange that heathen philosophers should have speculated more profoundly than the patriarchs of the East on this mysterious subject.

The immortalities erected by Egyptian or Grecian philosophy were no purer, in moral conception and attributes, than the mythological fantasies of the North American Indians.

Immortality is a native concept for the soul.

"Though the immortality of the soul were an error," he had said, "I should be sorry not to believe it; I confess that I am not so humble as the atheists.

The immortality of human love is the theme of the poem, which is made up of over one hundred different lyrics.