The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination. – Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. – Elbert Hubbard
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. – Elbert Hubbard
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. – Elbert Hubbard
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872