When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Man is ill because he is never still.