The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

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.

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

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.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.