Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what

Let the dead bury the dead...

Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.

Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: "Reckon he's got tapeworm" Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.

Exista un soi de oameni care ... se gindesc atit de mult la lumea cealalta, incit n-ajung niciodata sa invete cum sa traiasca in lumea asta.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.