For love is immortality.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth how little wordings enjoy.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal few really ASK. On the contrary they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Imagination the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature should be limited. In order to enjoy life we should not enjoy it too much.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

A novelist is like all mortals more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys leaving an ugly wound.