THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Patriotism is the trump card of a scoundrel.

The great secrecy is speedy justice.

The really loyal people ... don't talk about it everlastingly.

Circumstances alter cases.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

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

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

Nature's bank-dividends.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?