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
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same
An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.