Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?