My Brain is the key that sets me free.

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

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

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

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

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.

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