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
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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Men are only as great as they are kind.
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.