Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Victory - a matter of staying power.

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

Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.

Self-reliance is very excellent, but as for independence, there is no such thing.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

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

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

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

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

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Beauty isn't so much a matter of mug as a question of thinks.

There was no such thing as civilization until individuals ceased carrying arms, and agreed to refer their differences to the courts.

DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.

There is no such thing as complete education, and I hope we have heard the last of the girl who is going to Boston to complete her education.

He is an educated man in the best sense of the word — mindful always that there is no such thing as complete education. We are always going to school, and success consists in striving eternally, but never arriving.

Good Habits are mentors, guardian angels, and servants that regulate your sleep, your work, your thought.

History is Force dressed up.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.