Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for…

— 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

Punctuality is the soul of business.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

— 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

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

— 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

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Circumstances alter cases.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Ceremony is all backbone.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

— 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

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton