Wonder - Mr Brown's Precepts

The grade 4s in room 10 are doing a novel study of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. We have been discussing some important quotes that come up in the novel. The quotes are listed below. Spend some time discussing these quotes with your children. 

Mr. Brown's Precepts:

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Your deeds are your monuments.

~inscribed on an Egyptian tomb

Audentes fortuna iuvat. (Fortune favors the bold.) 

~Virgil

No man is an island, entire of itself.

~John Donne

It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

~James Thurber

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

~Blaise Pascal

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

~Sappho

Do all the good you can, 

By all the means you can, 

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can, 

As long as you ever can.

~John Wesley's Rule

Just follow the day and reach for the sun!

~The Polyphonic Spree, "Light and Day"