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

"I have always been a friend of the people, and I have always tried to please them."

"I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall show, and all the tinsel shall glitter."

"I have no desire to be considered a humbug, although I have been called one often enough."

"I was not born for the ordinary affairs of life. I was born for something higher."