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
Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Habit: The great economizer of energy.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
Play needs direction as well as work.
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.