Elbert Green Hubbard

And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.

Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.

Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.

The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.

The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.

It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.

One mild form of coercion these rogues resort to is to call us unpatriotic when we speak the truth about them. Not long ago they would have cut off our heads. The world moves.

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.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

No man who believes in force and violence is an Anarchist. The true Anarchist decries all influences save those of love and reason. Ideas are his only arms. Being an Anarchist I am also a Socialist.

My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.

I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself.

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

An Anarchist is one who minds his own business.

I AM an Anarchist. All good men are Anarchists.

I believe the Universe is planned for good. I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

I believe that men are inspired to-day as much as ever men were. I believe we are now living in Eternity as much as ever we shall. I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the …

I believe that the love of man for woman, and the love of woman for man is holy; And that this love in all its promptings is as much an emanation of the Divine Spirit as man's love for God, or the most daring hazards of the human mind. I …

I believe in the Motherhood of God. I believe in the Blessed Trinity of Father, Mother and Child.

Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village — in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is …

I have carried a dinner pail and worked for day's wages, and I have also been an employer of labor, and I know there is something to be said on both sides. There is no excellence, per se, in poverty; rags are no recommendation; and all …

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?