People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

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

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember 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.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.