As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.
正如植物由种子萌发，离开种子便无从生长，人的每一个行动也都源于思想中隐伏的种子，没有这些种子，行动便不会发生。
— James Allen · As a Man Thinketh (1903) · Thought and Character —