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
Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.
Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.
If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
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.