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

Source: Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine (May 1907).

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine (May 1907).

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine (October 1897).

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In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Source: Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock, The Philistine magazine, May 1913. Original Quote: 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.”

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Source: Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock, The Philistine magazine, May 1913. Original Quote: 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.”

A genius is a man who takes the lemons that Fate hands him and starts a lemonade stand with them.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, As quoted in Reader’s Digest (October 1927)

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, As quoted in Reader’s Digest (October 1927)