"Every crowd has a silver lining."

"There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: …"

"I am not in the business of selling truth. I am in the business of selling entertainment."

"I have been called a charlatan, a humbug, a cheat. But I have always given the public their money's worth."

"The public is always ready to pay for a good show."