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
Men are only as great as they are kind.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.