Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

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

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.