"My inexperienced friend, take it for granted that they all tell the truth -- about each other! -- and then transact your business to the best of your ability on your own judgment."

"I must confess that I am a humbug. I have always been a humbug."

"I am not ashamed to say that I have made a good deal of money, and I intend to make more."

"More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much."

"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: …"