James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Haliburton
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother’s love.
Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease.
Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark; open the door, and it is off for ever.
Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success.
God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?
Harvests are Nature’s bank dividends.
Hear one side, and you will be in the dark; hear both, and all will be clear.
Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for your travelling companion.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.