Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

Prison is a socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Elbert Hubbard

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Elbert Hubbard

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

Strength and strength’s will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Elbert Hubbard

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better.

Elbert Hubbard