Thomas Chandler Haliburton
22 quotes
Biography
"I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here."
"We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents."
"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."
"It seems to me, all created critters look down on each other. The British and French look down on the s, and colonists look down upon s and Indians, while we look down upon them all. It's the way of the world, I do suppose; but the road ain't a pleasant one."
"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."
"Punctuality [...] is the soul of business."
"Everything has altered its dimensions, except the world we live in. The more we know of that, the smaller it seems. Time and distance have been abridged, remote countries have become accessible, and the antipodes are upon visiting terms. There is a reunion of the human race; and the family resemblance now that we begin to think alike, dress alike, and live alike, is very striking. The South Sea Islanders, and the inhabitants of China, import their fashions from Paris, and their fabrics from Manchester, while Rome and London supply missionaries to the ‘ends of the earth,’ to bring its inhabitants into ‘one fold, under one Shepherd.’ Who shall write a book of travels now? Livingstone has exhausted the subject. What field is there left for a future Munchausen? The far West and the far East have shaken hands and pirouetted together, and it is a matter of indifference whether you go to the moors in Scotland to shoot grouse, to South America to ride an alligator, or to Indian jungles to shoot tigers-there are the same facilities for reaching all, and steam will take you to either with the equal ease and rapidity. We have already talked with New York; and as soon as our speaking-trumpet is mended shall converse again. ‘To waft a sigh from Indus to the pole,’ is no longer a poetic phrase, but a plain matter of fact of daily occurrence. Men breakfast at home, and go fifty miles to their counting-houses, and when their work is done, return to dinner. They don’t go from London to the seaside, by way of change, once a year; but they live on the coast, and go to the city daily. The grand tour of our forefathers consisted in visiting the principle cities of Europe. It was a great effort, occupied a vast deal of time, cost a large sum of money, and was oftener attended with danger than advantage. It comprised what was then called, the world: whoever had performed it was said to have ‘seen the world,’ and all that it contained. The Grand Tour now means a voyage round the globe, and he who has not made it has seen nothing."
"A college education shows a man how little other people know."
"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."
"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"Punctuality is the soul of business."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"Mothers can get weaned as well as babies."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend."
"I have learnt a good deal from my own talk."