All things which are similar and therefore connected, are drawn to each other's power.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler.

I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant of their causes. But those things which are for the profit of men -- for the turning away of evil events, for the destroying of sorceries, for the curing of diseases, for the exterminating of phantasms, for the preserving of life, honor, or fortune -- may be done without offense to God or injury to religion, because they are, as profitable, so necessary.

Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the top and perfection of Natural Philosophy, and which is indeed the active part of the same; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason.