Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotations

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.