Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fact is stranger than fiction.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton