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.

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.

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

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

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

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.