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
Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
A form of self-delusion.
Conformists die, but heretics live forever.
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.