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
Postponement: The father of failure.
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
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Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
Library: A place where the dead lie.
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.