Clergymen sometimes take offense when I place my Museum next door to their churches; but really, a lecture on natural history from my platform is quite as instructive as a sermon from their pulpits.
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"Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing."
"Nobody ever lost a dollar by doing a good turn."
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
"The show must go on, even if the elephants are sneezing."
"The bigger the humbug, the better the show."
American showman and Barnum & Bailey Circus co-founder, whose autobiography popularized Gilded Age commercial spectacle. Closely associated with James Anthony Bailey (his circus business partner). For an intellectual contrast, see Mark Twain, American author and Gilded Age satirist — Twain's The Gilded Age (1873, with Charles Dudley Warner) named the entire era of corrupt commercial spectacle Barnum embodied — Twain's later writing repeatedly attacked Barnum-style hucksterism as the era's moral disease.
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