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
Elbert Hubbard quotes about
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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.
The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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.
Habit is a form of exercise.
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.
The goal of evolution is self - conquest
If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion