Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

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?

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

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.

The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.

It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.