Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbardwas an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Presently Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 June 1859
CountryUnited States of America
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
Every knock is a boost.
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.
Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.
An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right