“The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.”

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

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

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

The dose makes the poison.

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

Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.

It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.

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.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

From abundance springs safety.

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope and that’s all I had.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.