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

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

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

I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

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

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.