It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.