Expenditures rise to meet income.

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

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

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."

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

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.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.