Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) was an American writer, publisher, and philosopher who founded the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York. His pithy essays in the “Little Journeys” series and his magazine “The Philistine” produced a steady stream of aphorisms still quoted a century after his death aboard the RMS Lusitania. Few writers have packed more practical wisdom into a single sentence than Hubbard at his sharpest. Read on for Elbert Hubbard’s lines on quieting the restless mind, featured in our overthinking quotes collection.