When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert HubbardIf you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Elbert HubbardWhen on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Elbert HubbardOrthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
Elbert HubbardPut yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
Elbert HubbardThe man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Elbert HubbardAll noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Elbert HubbardThe only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert HubbardPicture 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
Elbert HubbardEvery man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert HubbardYou had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
Elbert HubbardIf it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
Elbert HubbardThe average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
Elbert HubbardResponsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
Elbert HubbardNature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
Elbert HubbardThe mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
Elbert HubbardThe hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.
Elbert HubbardPrison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
Elbert Hubbard