Elbert Hubbard:
A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
I believe that Hubbard (who died when the Lusitania was sunk) was the originator of “build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” rather than Ralph Waldo Emerson. For one thing it sounds more like Hubbard than Emerson.
