I'm tired of fighting....

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Dist….

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

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

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

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….

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

Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell..

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol..

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

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

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements..

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

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth..

My Brain is the key that sets me free..

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer..

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

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 ….

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

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….

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 ….