Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburtonwas a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author. Politically, he played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into Confederation. Literarily, he was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth17 December 1796
CountryCanada
vanity four fifth
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
inevitable taxes
Death and taxes are inevitable.
evil anxiety over-confidence
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
cases circumstances
Circumstances alter cases.
punctuality sole
Punctuality is the sole of business.
gratitude grateful opposites
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
order harmony proportion
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
women forgiving never-forget
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
backbone ceremony
Ceremony is all backbone.
anger virtue
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
humanity facts fiction
Fact is stranger than fiction.
husband law doe
Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.
contentment indolence refined
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
admit gets man wrong
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.