To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

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

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

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

Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it …

I was the only SS leader in Russia who was not assassinated or upon whom an assassination was never attempted. I could walk anywhere without a bodyguard.

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.