German Alchemist Quotes

But antimony, like mercury, can best be compared to a round circle without end... and the more one investigates it, by suitable means, the more one discovers in it and learns from it; it cannot be mastered, in short, by one person alone because of the shortness of human life.

Basil Valentine

The choice also of the Medicines must always be considered, and their preparations and compositions made by the Physitian himself, and not carelessly left to others. He is truly a genuine Physitian who can tell how (not only by Reason, as mear Rationall Physitians doe, but) by their own hand to prepare the medicaments...