Elbert Hubbard

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

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

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

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

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.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.