Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.