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 Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
Art is nothing; it's a way.
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.