There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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