My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

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

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

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.