You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.

If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

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.