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
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
I believe the Universe is planned for good.
When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
Action is thought tempered by illusion.
Every life is its own excuse for being.
The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.