The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

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.