Elbert Hubbard

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.