Elbert Hubbard

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Elbert Hubbard

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

Elbert Hubbard

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

Elbert Hubbard

Be patient with the boys – you are dealing with soul-stuff.

Elbert Hubbard

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

Elbert Hubbard

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Elbert Hubbard

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Elbert Hubbard

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Elbert Hubbard

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

Elbert Hubbard