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.

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 have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

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.

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

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.

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