Elbert Hubbard Long Quotations

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.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.

Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

No matter how long you live, die young.