Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, 'How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?'

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

The tide tarrieth no man.

Now or never was the time.