
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
As A Man Thinketh (1902)
Variant: Mind is the Master Power that molds and makes, And we are mind. And ever more we take the tool of thought, and shaping what we will, bring forth a thousand joys, or a thousand ills. We think in secret, and it comes to pass, environment, is but our looking glass.
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Source: https://theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Annie%20Besant-In-The-Outer-Court.pdf In the Outer Court, 1895, p. 60
“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.”
Source: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), p. 284
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. 111