This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it.' My advice is: 'Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. You are too young to understand it, she said, but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father. I was shocked. Atticus doesn’t drink whiskey, I said. He never drunk a drop in his life—nome, yes he did. He said he drank some one time and didn’t like it. Miss Maudie laughed. Wasn’t talking about your father, she said. What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn’t be as hard as some men are at their best. There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. Do
— Гордостта — обобщи Мери, която се осланяше на мъдрите сиразмишления — според мен е често срещано несъвършенство. Отвсичко, което съм прочела, заключавам, че наистина се среща често,че човек по природа е склонен към това и че малцина от нас не хранятчувство на самодоволство за някои свои достойнства, все едно —истински или въображаеми. Суетност и гордост са различни неща,макар двете думи понякога да се използуват като синоними. Може даси горд, без да си суетен. Гордостта се отнася повече към мнениетони за нас самите, а суетността към онова, което бихме искали другитеда мислят за нас.
These men, we’ve been told, are like war criminals. It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their crimes are retroactive. They have committed atrocities and must be made into examples, for the rest. Though this is hardly needed. No woman in her right mind, these days, would seek to prevent a birth, should she be so lucky as to conceive. What
„Musí ti být jasné, že náš civilizovaný svět je tak rozlehlý, že si nemůžeme dovolit, aby menšiny byly nespokojené a neklidné. Zeptej se sám sebe, čeho u nás chceme dosáhnout především? Lidé chtějí být šťastní, není to tak? Neslyšels to celý život? Chci být šťastný, říkají lidé. No, a nejsou? Copak je pořád něčím nezaměstnáváme, neposkytujeme jim dost zábavy? Vždyť pro to žijeme, pro nic jiného, nemám pravdu? Pro požitek, pro příjemné vzrušení. A musíš připustit, že naše kultura nás tímhle přímo zahrnuje.