The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.
Thomas ChalmersEvery man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
Thomas ChalmersThe character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.
Thomas ChalmersI have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.
Thomas Chalmers