"If you wish to succeed in life, you must be a little bit of a humbug."

"The world is full of wonders, and it is my job to bring them to the people."

"Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing."

"The great art of money-getting consists in knowing how to attract the public by some novel and original device."

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