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
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.
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.
If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.