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
I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.