Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— 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

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur'…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton