The April precept is: What is beautiful is good, who is good will soon be beautiful.

I think it means what is beautiful is good and who is good means that whoever is nice or does good will soon be beautiful.
This relates to August from Wonder, because even though he has facial deformities, he has a good heart, and the quote says that if you are good, you will soon be beautiful.

Personally, I don’t agree with the quote. First, because sometimes there are things/people that look good (beautiful), but are not always good. You could look pretty on the outside (looks good), but you could actually be mean (not good).

Second, there are other quotes that say everyone is beautiful, so why would the quote say that if you do good, you will soon be beautiful? Aren’t you already beautiful? I guess it depends on what “beautiful” means to you.

Mr. Browne’s April precept is: what is beautiful is good, and who is beautiful, is good. –Sappho.

What I think this precept means is that who is beautiful, on the inside is good is a very good person. The outside, to me doesn’t matter that much! The other part of this precept I think is about that a person who has a good heart, will be beautiful in the future.

I think the reason why R.J Palacio,[author of the book Wonder] added this precept in the book Wonder, is because there was a boy named August, had special needs on his face. His eyes were suppose to be where your nose is suppose  to be.  Others made fun of how he looked, but August had a very good heart, and of course he will be beautiful in the future. Just like the precept says.

April precept: What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. – Sappho

A way I would explain this is, that it does matter if you are like August or anybody else because when you have a positive attitude, you are always beautiful in the inside. And in the future you will have more friends and know one will care if you are look like August.  anyone else can act different or mean around you, don’t worry because keep being nice (good) to them, after your friends will help you. Also everyone is the same but in a different way and we just proved that.

A second idea I have is karma. If you stay good to people then you will have more friends people will treat you the same because you proved that everyone is the same, but in a different way.when you are working on something then your friends will come and help or if you don’t need help they will respect that. Now those are my ideas of what I think of the quote.