You can't call 43 days a dire emergency,

I don't know, and I can't answer you tonight.

We opened every potential flood gate we could, ... We were at least expecting a lot of rain.

Emotion resembles a wheel spinning free. When the cogs work, action begins, emotion ceases.

The best moment for work or study never arrives; one should therefore work whenever one can.

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.