The Great Trouble With Magicians Is The

The Pickpocket Is Usually Very Well Dressed And Of Prepossessing Appearance.

Only One Man Ever Betrayed My Confidence, And That Only In A Minor Matter.

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.

A Magician Is Only An Actor - An Actor Pretending To Be A Magician.

But It Must Not Be Thought That I Say This Out Of Personal Experience: For In The Many Years That I Have Been Before The Public My Secret Methods Have Been Steadily Shielded By The Strict Integrity Of My Assistants, Most Of Whom Have Been With Me For Years.