Elbert Hubbard

"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."

"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."

"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live."

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

"Life in abundance comes only through great love."

"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it."

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."

"The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it."

"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree."

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."

"I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts."

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."