There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

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 there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.