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.

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

I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.

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

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

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.

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.