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
kissing long joy
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.
purses belly expenses
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
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.
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.
backbone ceremony
Ceremony is all backbone.
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.
admit gets man wrong
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.