One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love)

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?