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.

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

Man is ill because he is never still.

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

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

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

The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!