Name/Title
Selected quotes from Elbert Hubbard's ScrapbookScope and Content
Selections from the Elbert Hubbard Scrap Book. Hand written on both sides in pencil, writer unknown. Twentyfour quotes of multiple authors.
"The greater the obsticle the more glory in overcoming it."
Moliere
"I owe all my success in life to havingbeen alwaysa quarter of an hour beforehand."
Lord Nelson
"Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure; the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch."
Max O' Rell
" Half the joy of life is in the little things on the run. Let us run if we must - even the sands do that - but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. And everything is worth its while if we only grasp it and its significance."
Victor Chesbuliez
"Equality causes no war."
Solon
"Our hope for eternal life in the hereafter does not spring from a longing for a spiritual existence, but grows out of our love for life upon this earth, which we have tried and found good."
Robert J. Shores
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
Mark Twain
"There is only one way to get ready for immortality and that is to love this life and live as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."
Henry Van Dyke
"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."
Horace Greely
"Manhood, not scholarship is the first aim of education."
Ernest Thompson Selton.
"Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God."
Thomas Jefferson
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
Samuel Johnson
"God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."
William E. Channing
"The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of it."
Francis Bacon
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
Hans Christian Andersen
"Joy is not in things, it is in us."
Richard Wagner
"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
Victor Hugo
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
James A. Garfield
"He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome councellor, a cheerful companion or an effectual comforter."
Isaac Barrow
"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."
G.W. Curtis
"The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we are sliding down."
William L. Brownell
"If you wish to appear agreeable in society you must consent to be taught many things which you know already."
"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
Voltaire
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground."
Sir Thomas Overbury
Physical Characteristics: approximately 8x11Acquisition
Accession
2012.0016Source or Donor
Willey, Hildred
