I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

One to destroy is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands takes a specious name 'War's glorious art' and gives immortal fame.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality vulnerability mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

As a teacher as a propagandist Mr. Shaw is no good at all even in his own generation. But as a personality he is immortal.