Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

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

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Life is just one damned thing after another.