"I have been called a charlatan, a humbug, a cheat. But I have always given the public their money's worth."

"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."

"Mirth is the medicine of life; it cures its ills and lightens its burdens."

"To be a successful showman, you must always be a little ahead of your audience."

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