Henry David Thoreau Hour Quotations

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,which, however, I did not promise to do.Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partitionshouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, 'Think of it!He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers.'