"I am not ashamed to say that I am a humbug. I have always appealed to the public's love of the marvelous."

"Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue."

"I have found that the public will pay for what they like, and they will like what they are told to like."

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

"Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed."