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Here are a few orphics that [Ali] Baba threw off while riding from the Battery to Union Square in a cable car:
All is not beautiful that aspires high.
A square tower of bricks is as beautiful as a square tower of bricks.
A gorgeous entrance over-dazzles a multitude of shams.
When the front of a structure is as the wall, the wall would do as the front.
In all this dazzle of brick a man must think in squares and oblongs.
Methinks the oblongs are of the long-green variety.
The honest craftsman loves what is green in nature.
The New York craftsman delights in the other green.
New York is machine-made.
I hear it is run by a machine.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Anson Blackman (Ali Baba) in The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, edited by Elbert Hubbard, Volume 18, Number 1, (East Aurora, New York: The Society of Philistines, December 1903), p. 26. Cited in part in private email by Lee Graves (March 8, 2005).

THESE truths I hold to be self-evident: That man was made to be happy; that happiness is only attainable through useful effort; that the very best way to help ourselves is to help others, and often the best way to help others is to mind our own business; that useful effort means the proper exercise of all our faculties; that we grow only through exercise; that education should continue through life, and the joys of mental endeavor should be, especially, the solace of the old; that where men alternate work, play and study in right proportion, the organs of the mind are the last to fail, and death for such has no terrors.
— Elbert Hubbard in Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One’s Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others, (East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1906), p. 114.

No one knows what the Goal is—we are all sailing under sealed orders.
— Elbert Hubbard in Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One’s Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others, (East Aurora, N.Y.: The Roycrofters, 1906), p. 72. Also available at Project Gutenburg.