“To fill the hour,—that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.”

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.”

“Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.”

“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?”

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”

“So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.”

“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.”