S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
Alchemy
The world hath been much abused by the opinion of making gold; the work itself I judge to be possible; but the means hitherto propounded are (in the practice) full of error.
I was ever of opinion that the philosopher’s stone, and an holy war, were but the rendezvous of cracked brains, that wore their feather in their heads.
