Hubbard, Elbert Green

"Never explain - your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyhow."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one."

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

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

"Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes."

"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."

"Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught."

"The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off." - in The Philistine

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

"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness." - The Note Book