AS A Man Thinketh James Allen chapter 4 - Thought and Purpose. First published in 1903, As a Man Thinketh was described by James Allen as "a book that will help you to help yourself", "a pocket companion for thoughtful people".

This little volume ,the result of meditation and experience, is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much written upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that they themselves are makers of themselves by virtue of the thoughts, which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.

—James Allen

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