Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Circumstances alter cases.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 – August 27, 1865) was one of the first major Canadian authors. He was also a judge and, for a short period of years, a member of the Canadian Parliament.

Quotes

• I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here.
  • Sam Slick in England (1835), Ch. XXIV; “Sam Slick” first appeared in a weekly paper of Nova Scotia, 1835. Comparable to: "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", Cooper: The Ways of the Hour, chap. vi. (1850); "At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city" N. P. Willis, Necessity for a Promenade Drive.

• We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.
  • The Clockmaker (1836); comparable to "Remember that time is money" in "Advice to a Young Tradesman" (1748) by Benjamin Franklin

• 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.
  • The Clockmaker (1836)

• Circumstances alter cases.
• *The Old Judge, Or Life in a Colony (1849), Ch. XV

• Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
  • Wise-saws : or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife (1856), p. 179

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Works by Thomas Chandler Haliburton at Project Gutenberg
• Photos of 1937 plaque by Historic Sites and Monuments Board
• The Haliburton Club
• Haliburton House Museum