About P. T. Barnum: Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum is widely, but erroneously, credited with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute".
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere ...
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
