"A person may be very secretive and..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?”

“Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.”

“Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.”

“From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.”

“There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.”

“It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.”

“It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.”

“Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.”

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”