In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

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

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

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

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.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.