If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

No one has leave to sin.