“Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.”

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.

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.

As you talk, so is your heart.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.

Flowers crown her with thorns, keeping her mind entrapped in a garden of lies – guarding her mind.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

They had different minds but their hearts were aligned and their souls entwined; for they were two of a kind.

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.