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

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

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.

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.

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

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.