A college education shows a man how little other people know.
– 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.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Punctuality is the soul of business.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.