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.

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.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.