Quotes from Thomas C. Haliburton

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

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

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.

The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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.