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

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

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