I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth the next good sense the third good humor and the fourth wit.

The first glass is for myself the second for my friends the third for good humor and the forth for my enemies.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

To repent is to adopt God's viewpoint in place of your own.

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.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

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

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.