Elbert Hubbard's Scrap BookA vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard. Here the words of history's and literature's greats from William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Marcus Aurelius, Charlotte Brontï¿1/2, and Dante to Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson, Pythagoras, and Oscar Wilde meet. Originally published posthumously as a tribute to Hubbard, this compilation includes the musings of George Washington on jealousy, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on love, Plato on man, and hundreds of others. The universe's most momentous questions about life and success, as well as love, humanity, nature, and war, unfold in memorable passages. Indexes by author, topic, and poem serve for easy reference. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 34
... thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau ...
... thousand years ago . O friend , unseen , unborn , unknown , Student of our sweet English tongue , Read out my words at night , alone : I was a poet , I was young . Since I can never see your face , And never shake you by the hand , I ...
... thousand a year , a two thousand a year or a ten thousand a year , livelihood ? and can you afford the one you want ? It is a matter of taste ; it is not in the least degree a question of duty , though commonly sup- posed so . But there ...