It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
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 living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
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 business.