Elbert Hubbard

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another…

— Elbert Hubbard

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

— Elbert Hubbard

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that…

— Elbert Hubbard

Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST … explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much…

— Elbert Hubbard

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold…

— Elbert Hubbard

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain…

— Elbert Hubbard

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

“If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.”

— Elbert Hubbard

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

— Elbert Hubbard

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

— Elbert Hubbard

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

— Elbert Hubbard

Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

— Elbert Hubbard

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

— Elbert Hubbard

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

— Elbert Hubbard

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to…

— Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

— Elbert Hubbard

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man…

— Elbert Hubbard

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you…

— Elbert Hubbard

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a…

— Elbert Hubbard

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is…

— Elbert Hubbard

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense…

— Elbert Hubbard

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

— Elbert Hubbard

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

— Elbert Hubbard

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

— Elbert Hubbard

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil…

— Elbert Hubbard

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from…

— Elbert Hubbard

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

— Elbert Hubbard

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

— Elbert Hubbard

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

— Elbert Hubbard

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the…

— Elbert Hubbard

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath,…

— Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

— Elbert Hubbard

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

— Elbert Hubbard

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

— Elbert Hubbard

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

— Elbert Hubbard

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos…

— Elbert Hubbard

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

— Elbert Hubbard

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him…

— Elbert Hubbard

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh…

— Elbert Hubbard