Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.
作曲家、雕塑家、画家、诗人、先知、智者,他们是未来世界的创造者、天堂的建筑师。世界因他们曾经活过而美丽;没有他们,辛劳的人类便会枯萎。
— James Allen · As a Man Thinketh (1903) · Visions and Ideals —