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
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
Nothing is permanent but change.
Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?
If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.