"Action is thought tempered by illusion...." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“The only way to retain love is to give it away.”

“Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.”

“Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.”

“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

“The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.”

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

“The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.”

“One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.”

“Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”