"The public always wants to be humbugged, but they don't want to be caught at it."

"The public is more easily humbugged than ever before, because it is so anxious to be humbugged."

"When I was born, all the modesty I had was in my head; I took it out, looked at it, laughed, and threw it away."

"If you want to be rich, you must be a showman."

"More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much."