Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

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

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

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

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

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.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.