"When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice..." His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.