Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

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

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

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.