Elbert Hubbard

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Elbert Hubbard

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Elbert Hubbard

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Elbert Hubbard

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Elbert Hubbard

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.

Elbert Hubbard

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

Elbert Hubbard

What people need and what they want may be very different.

Elbert Hubbard

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Elbert Hubbard

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

Elbert Hubbard