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
heart brain looks
Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
faults sometimes sin
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
envelopes
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
vanity four fifth
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
inevitable taxes
Death and taxes are inevitable.
perfect people genius
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
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.
hope men may
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
women forgiving never-forget
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
backbone ceremony
Ceremony is all backbone.