Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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.
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.