Elbert Hubbard quote

"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."

  --  Elbert Hubbard

http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/6828#ixzz2q0WQ6Jje

Bio Facts:
He made good money as a soap salesman.  He was a famous philosopher, an anarchist and socialist who ran an artist colony.  He and his wife died in the sinking of the Lusitania (1915).

His seminal work (in my opinion) was "Jesus was an Anarchist".   Excerpts:

My faith is great: out of the transient darkness the shadows will flee away and the Day will yet dawn.

He was a feminist: 

Out in the great world women occasionally walk off the dock in the darkness, and then struggle for life in the deep waters. Society jigs and ambles by, with a coil of rope, but before throwing it demands of the drowning one a certificate of character from her Pastor, or a letter of recommendation from her Sunday School Superintendent, or a testimonial from a School Principal. Not being able to produce the document the struggler is left to go down to her death in the darkness.

He was anti-war:

An Anarchist does not believe in sending warships across wide oceans to kill brown men, and lay waste rice fields, and burn the homes of people fighting for liberty. 

He was a Socialist:

Being an Anarchist I am also a Socialist. Socialism is the antithesis of Anarchy. One is the North Pole of Truth, the other the South. The Socialist believes in working for the good of all, while Anarchy is pure Individualism.