Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

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

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.