37 Quotes by François-René de Chateaubriand

The heart feels, the head compares.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character .

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

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

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

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.