The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
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 HitchcockAtheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.
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