"Every
fact and process in Nature contains a moral lesson for the wise
man. There is no law in the world of Nature around us which
is not to be found operating with the same mathematical certainty
in the mind of man and in human life. All the parables of Jesus
are illustrative of this truth, and are drawn from the simple
facts of Nature. There is a process of seed-sowing in the mind
and life a spiritual sowing which leads to a harvest according
to the kind of seed sown. Thoughts, words, and acts are seeds
sown, and, by the inviolable law of things, they produce after
their kind."