Robert Brault

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

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

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

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.