Who is Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Among Hubbard's many publications were the fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.

Early life

Hubbard was born in Bloomington, Illinois, to Silas Hubbard and Juliana Fran...
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes

• Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
• Art is not a thing it is a way.
• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
• Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
• Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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