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
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.
Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
I believe in the Motherhood of God.