Elbert Hubbard

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

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

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

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly those who dispute with one another at last agree.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

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

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

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

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

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

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