Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.
Roswell Dwight HitchcockIt is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.
Roswell Dwight HitchcockCaesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.
Roswell Dwight HitchcockAtheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.
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