The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.

Where are your pants, son?

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.