"The public is not capable of distinguishing between a genuine article and a spurious one."

"I have exhibited mermaids, but I never said they were real."

"A little reflection will show that humbug is an astonishingly wide-spread phenomenon — in fact almost universal."

"The public has a short memory, so you must always be doing something new."

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."