Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.