It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.
Roswell Dwight HitchcockTrue greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age nor too far before it. It is up with its age, and ahead of it only just so far as to be able to lead its march. It cannot slumber, for activity is a necessity of its existence. It is no reservoir, but a fountain.
Roswell Dwight HitchcockMoney spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.
Roswell Dwight HitchcockThere are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock