Elbert Hubbard

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you’ll never be criticized.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

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

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Happiness is a habit — cultivate it.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Hubo un hombre cuya actuación en la guerra de Cuba culmina en los horizontes de mi memoria, como culmina un astro en su perihelio.