Gustave Flaubert Quote

Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.