Thomas Chandler Haliburton's Quotes

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.