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
Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.
No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
It is only life and love that give love and life.
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!
To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.