"It is easy to get everything you..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.”

“Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better”

“‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”

“It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.”

“There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.”

“Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.”

“There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.”