Pickpockets Either Work Alone Or In Pairs,

Never Try To Fool Children, They Expect Nothing, And Therefore See Everything.

No Performer Should Attempt To Bite Off Red-hot Iron Unless He Has A Good Set Of Teeth.

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.

I Knew, As Everyone Knows, That The Easiest Way To Attract A Crowd Is To Let It Be Known That At A Given Time And A Given Place Some One Is Going To Attempt Something That In The Event Of Failure Will Mean Sudden Death. That's What Attracts Us To The Man Who Paints The Flagstaff On The Tall Building, Or To The 'human Fly' Who Scales The Walls Of The Same Building.

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.