We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.