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 man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
Habit: The great economizer of energy.
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.