Wonderstruck - Quotations

In Wonderstruck, Ben's mom has quotations taped up all over the house. Here are some quotations with links to the person who said them.

What do you think these quotations mean? You can email me your comments and I will post them here! tyler.jones@calgarypubliclibrary.com

1. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
2. None so deaf as those who will not hear. - Mathew Henry
3. I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is an art required to sort and understand them. - Michel de Montaigne
4. Calamity is the test of integrity. -Samuel Richardson
5. A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. - Thomas Carlyle
6. A book may be as great a thing as a battle. - Benjamin Desreali 
7. Love is the greatest of educators. - Frances Sargent Osgood
8. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul. - Dr. Johnson
9. Contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he decends to human affairs. - Cicero
10. An undevout astronomer is mad. - Edward Young
11. Brave deeds are most esteemable when hidden. - Blaise Pascal
12. Out of difficulties grow miracles. -Jean de la Bruyere
13. Books - lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. - Edwin Percy Whipple
14. Promptly improve your accidents. - Napoleon