Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute, who has many lovers but disappoints all and grants her favors to none. She transforms the haughty into fools, the rich into paupers, the philosophers into dolts, and the deceived into loquacious deceivers.... --Trithemius, Annalmm Hirsaugensium Tomi II, S. Gallo, 1690, 141