Elbert Hubbard

As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

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

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.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

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.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.