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
Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it.
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Allow motion to equal emotion.
The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.