"Many a man's reputation would not know..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”

“Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.”

“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.”

“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.”

“It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.”

“Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.”

“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”