Thomas C. HaliburtonThinkers

Anger is endowed with virtue when temperate.

Ceremony is all backbone.

Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease.

Conceit grows as naturally as the hair on one's head, but it takes longer to come out.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Crying is a woman's weapon. Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.

Education is a process that shows a man how little other people know.

Education demonstrates to you how little other people know.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.