Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

These truths I hold to be self-evident: That man was made to be happy; that happiness is only attainable through useful effort; that the very best way to help ourselves is to help others, and often the best way to help others is to mind our own business; that useful effort means the proper exercise of all our faculties; that we grow only through exercise; that education should continue through life, and the joys of mental endeavor should be, especially, the solace of the old; that where men alternate work, play and study in right proportion, the organs of the mind are the last to fail, and death for such has no terrors.

If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing — court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Las inteligencias poco capaces se interesan en lo extraordinario; las inteligencias poderosas en las cosas ordinarias.

All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed.

This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head.

You gain by giving — so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it.

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

Who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.