"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."

"Expenditure rises to meet income."

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

"The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion... Politicians and taxpayers have assumed (with occa…"

"A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."

"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"