No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

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

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.

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.

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

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

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