Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
Elbert Hubbard II, Sanford Hubbard, Ralph Hubbard and Catherine Bryan by Bertha; Miriam Elberta Hubbard by Alice
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Scandal is gossip related by a small bore.
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Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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A conservative is a man too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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Life is just one damned thing after another.
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Renowned essayist, author, editor, and publisher.
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Established the Roycroft Press in 1893 in East Aurora, New York, after he had retired as a freelance newspaperman and head of sales and advertising for a manufacturing company.
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He and his wife, Alice, were among 128 Americans who died in the sinking of the ocean liner RMS "Lusitania," off the coast of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland.
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