Elbert Hubbard Quotes

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

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.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

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

Every knock is a boost.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

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

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

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

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

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.

I believe in the Motherhood of God.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

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

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

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

Play needs direction as well as work.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.