“And certainly, I have read more than a hundred volumes of Books dealing with this Art, without having found in any the perfection of this Mercurial Water. I have also seen several learned men in this science without having found any who had this Secret, except for a great Physician who told me that he had sighed for thirty-six years before arriving at it.” Bernard Trevisan Verbum Dismissum
"First the Stone must be resolved into its elementary substance (seeing that it is an union of body and spirit), that the two may become one mercurial water." — Richard the Englishman