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.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

As you talk, so is your heart.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.