If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.

I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.

Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

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.

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.