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.

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

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

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

She was born in the Objective case.