Robert Brault

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. [Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.]

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.