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
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.