Let the dead bury the dead.

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

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