Today's quotation is a gem from Amos Tversky: "You waste years by not being able to waste hours."

And today's poem has you waste a little longer than usual with me today. It is "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman.

Today's quotation is taken from Euripides. Today's poem is Thomas Hardy's "The Voice".

Today's quotation is by Edgar Degas: "Painting is easy when you don't know how; very difficult when you do."

Frances Harper provides today's poem, "The Artist".

Today quotation is from Mark Twain: "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

Sarah Helen Whitman's "Science" is our featured poem.

Today's quotation is commonly attributed to Lao Tzu but the modernity of theme and language makes me think not. Nevertheless, here it is: "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

For our poem we turn to Ernest Downson's "Exchanges". For such a short poem it contains an incredible number of directions of interpretation.

Our quotation today is taken from Nassim Taleb: "[A]void the company of achievers and people in suits who don't read books."

Our poem today is "Richard Corey" by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Our quotation today is by Sir Francis Bacon.

Today's poem is "Revenge" by L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon).

Our quotation today is from Abraham Lincoln: "I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the very end."

Today's poem is "Casabianca" by Felicia Hemans. Sadly, it is based on a true story. Hemans provides the following note: 'Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the Battle of the Nile) after the ship had taken fire, and all the guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.'

Today's quotation is from Golda Meir: "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do."

Our poem today is "The Deserter" by John Philpot Curran.

Today's quotation is from Andrew Jackson: "I was born for a storm, and a calm does not suit me".

Today's poem is yet another by Emily Dickinson, "There came a wind like a bugle"