Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time which is passing with strength which is only too limited.

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course that's a total joke and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

All things by immortal power. Near of far to each other linked are that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Nature more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals especially in the more thoughtful men which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.