I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she…

- François-René De Chateaubriand

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the…

- François-René De Chateaubriand

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

- François-René De Chateaubriand

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

- François-René De Chateaubriand

The heart feels, the head compares.

- François-René De Chateaubriand

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes b…

- François-René De Chateaubriand

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

- François-René De Chateaubriand

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of t…

- François-René De Chateaubriand

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he m…

- François-René De Chateaubriand