Fools vainly think no sorrows like their own; but view the world and you will learn to bear misfortunes well, since all men have their share.

An honest mediocrity is the happiest state a man can wish for.

Birds of a feather will flock together. Wise men will judge us by the company we keep.

A common liar shall not be believed, even when he speaks true.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Shun pleasure's tempting snare!

Saving a villain's life, you risk your own.

How preferable to converse with the learned dead rather than the unedifying and noisy living!

Asked how he could endure such a solitary life, the philosopher answered, ‘I was in very good company until you came in.’

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

[There is] one principle of all things, of which there has always been one and the same knowledge among all peoples.

Magic is a powerful faculty, full of mystery and comprising a profound knowledge of the most secret thing, their nature, power, quality, substance and effects.. It is a philosophical science; it is physics, mathematics, and theology.

Religion is the most mysterious thing and one about which one should keep silent... it would be an offense to religion to confide it to the profane multitude.

Though man is not an immortal animal, like the universe, he is nonetheless reasonable, and with his intelligence, his imagination and his soul, he can act upon and transform the whole world.

Natural Magick is the chief power of all the natural Sciences; the top, perfection, and active part of Natural Philosophy; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason.

No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman. Woman far excels Man. Woman was not composed of any inanimate or vile dirt, but of a more refined and purified substance, enlivened and actuated by a Rational Soul, whose operations speak it a beam, or bright ray of Divinity.

The meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.

All sciences are only the ordinances and opinions of men, as injurious as profitable, as pestilent as wholesome, as ill as good, in no part perfect, but doubtful and full of error and contention.

The world within worlds within it dissolved.

In the time of the philosophers, as at every other period, there existed some of these fervent mystics. God does not deprive this world of them, for they are its sustainers.