Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

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

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

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

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

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, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.

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.