The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

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

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

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

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.

And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.

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