Quotes from 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 companion.

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

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

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

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.

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

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

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

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

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

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

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

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

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Punctuality is the soul of business.