You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.