Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

Things are always better in the morning.

Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.