Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

As you talk, so is your heart.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.