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

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

Every man

If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.