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

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.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.