Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. Elbert Hubbard More Quotes by Elbert Hubbard More Quotes From Elbert Hubbard When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years. Elbert Hubbard air dark men As we grow better, we meet better people. Elbert Hubbard grows people Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it. Elbert Hubbard miracle men religion No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it. Elbert Hubbard events spirit spiritual It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing. Elbert Hubbard inspirational men book Piety is the tinfoil of pretense. Elbert Hubbard pretense piety The more one knows, the more one simplifies. Elbert Hubbard simplify knows Library: A place where the dead lie. Elbert Hubbard library lying The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. Elbert Hubbard heroism wish men Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. Elbert Hubbard glasses boots religion You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence. Elbert Hubbard artistic squares firsts Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it." Elbert Hubbard broken done moving No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think? Elbert Hubbard importance book thinking A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.'' Elbert Hubbard rich too-much men I believe the Universe is planned for good. Elbert Hubbard i-believe universe believe A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure. Elbert Hubbard doctors reading book One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident. Elbert Hubbard age two death No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right. Elbert Hubbard burden-of-proof should men God is good, there is no devil but fear. Elbert Hubbard devil fear If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? Elbert Hubbard benefits effort men
