The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.

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

The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.