Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them with gold and silver, by keeping the stone and metal in fusion together for a day, & then project upon metalls. This is the multiplication of ye stone in vertue. To multiply it in weight ad to it of ye first Gold whether philosophic or vulgar.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.