- Eli Watt: I don't know much about doctoring but I know my own people, I brought Letty into this world, saw her mother go out; same strain, something's made her want to stop living.
- Eli Watt: You think by tearing up a $250 mortgage, you paid me back for saving that boy's arm, his life? No, his life won't be squared away until...
- Eli Watt: Now Letty, flowers never cured the smallpox.
- Letty McGinnis: No, but a little brightness never hurt, did it?
- Eli Watt: No, a little brightness never hurt, that's the best argument yet.
- Letty McGinnis: This place is...
- Sarah: Right where *I* got into trouble, with his father's nephew. It was also...
- Letty McGinnis: Very late.
- Joan Stockton: I'm not marrying Jim.
- Eli Watt: Oh? Why not?
- Joan Stockton: He's not successful.
- Eli Watt: What makes someone successful?
- Joan Stockton: Being human, caring, like you.