I'm tired of fighting....

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer ….

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance..

My Brain is the key that sets me free..

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my ….

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it..

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way..

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer..

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do..

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter..

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline..

I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, t….

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool..

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician..

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods hav….

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets..

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes..

Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything..

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob..

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed..

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and….