Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self - esteem

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Habit is a form of exercise.

To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.

A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.