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
The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
Don't make excuses, make good.
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.