Paracelsus

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

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

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

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

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.