Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

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

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

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

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

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

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

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

Fear clogs faith liberates.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing—"carry a message to Garcia."

If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Don't make excuses — make good.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

A miracle is an event described by those to whom it was told by people who did not see it.

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

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