Elbert Green Hubbard

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things …

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

A careful analyst might here say that Plan Number Three is only a variation of Plan Number Two — the end being gained by hypnotic effects in either event

There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a …

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.

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

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.

"Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?" asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. "Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!" answered the divine Sara.

Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.

If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.

Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.