Elbert Hubbard

Time is an illusion-to orators.

Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience would have achieved success. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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

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

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

Remember this: If you work for a man in Heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter work for him speak well of him stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position and when you are on the outside damn to your heart's content but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Charity begins at home and usually stays there.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.