Who is Elbert Hubbard? Hubbard was a renowned philosopher, lecturer, critic, publisher, novelist, essayist and biographer in the late 19th and early 20th century. His essay "A Message to Garcia" was so incredibly popular that, at one time during the 1920s, more copies of "A Message to Garcia" were in print than any other publication except the Bible and the dictionary. Get to know this colorful and outspoken truly original American character with "The Words & Wisdom of Elbert Hubbard", a fun and interesting compilation of Hubbard's own words including quotes that are still in use today like: "Don't take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyways" and "A genius is a man who takes the lemons that Fate hands him and starts a lemonade stand with them" (now condensed to "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade"). If you are interested in finding out a little more about the person behind the great man, but don't want to make it a scholarly effort of digging through the archives, then you will find this an engaging and enlightening little book. From selected essays to personal letters to a selection of "quotable quotes", you'll get a deeper and more personal understanding of this fascinating figure and his place in history.