Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.

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.

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

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

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

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.

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