Quotes By Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

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

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

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

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

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

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

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

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