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
stubborn mules jackasses
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
vanity half sticks
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
hands hats expenses
If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.
air wish castles
Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.
hate sight cold
What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
self discipline denial
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
cases circumstances
Circumstances alter cases.
character men loud
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
contentment indolence refined
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
spiders lawyer
Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.
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.
strong imagination may
An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.
self authority backbone
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
women forgiving never-forget
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.