"Dignity is a mask we wear to..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.”

“Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.”

“I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.”

“The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!”

“One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.”

“It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.”

“The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.”

“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”

“It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.”