A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.
François-René de ChateaubriandWe 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.
François-René de ChateaubriandAlexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.
François-René de ChateaubriandA master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.
François-René de Chateaubriand