Robert Brault

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

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

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

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Softness has such a power to it. When you choose to soften into something, it relaxes, opens, tension releases. Stuck energy flows like blood coursing through veins, bringing much needed oxygen. Life force and warmth enters, connection is rekindled. Find the trust you need to allow softness in; it really is healing.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it

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

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.