1796 – 1865 • Canadian • Author
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
