See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

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

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

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

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout