Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

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

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

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

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

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

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.

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

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.