"I don't believe in taking fools by the hand, but I do believe in attracting them to my shows."

"The public wants to be humbugged, and I am the man to do it."

"And in what business is there not humbug?"

"I am not a philanthropist. I am a showman. But I believe in doing good while doing well."

"Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly."