Quotes by Thomas Haliburton

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