Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
Quotes·Quotations by Elbert Hubbard
Advice
¶ Live truth instead of professing it.
Confidence
¶ Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Experience
¶ Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. [The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)]
Failure
¶ The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Friend
¶ Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Happiness
¶ Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Life
¶ Life is just one damned thing after another.
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