- Joseph Whitehorse: If I had the money, I wouldn't hire you. I don't hold with men who follow the gun.
- Paladin: I agree, Mr. Whitehorse, it's not a practical profession.
- Martha Whitehorse: Does a gunslinger come high, Mr. Paladin?
- Paladin: Well, Mrs. Whitehorse, I do have expensive tastes.
- Rheinhart: Science has absolutely no standing in a community where they still bury chicken heads by the light of the moon to get rid of warts.
- Paladin: Molybdenum has been known for centuries. Looks somewhat like white iron, can be found anywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, Pliny wrote about molybdenum when he was in the employ of the Emperor Nero. Now there was a man of prejudice! He kept lions for the people he didn't like.
- Paladin: Well, I'm sorry to have given you some bad moments, but it's very difficult to conspire with an honest man.
- Martha Whitehorse: Oh, Mr. Paladin, you had a very close call.
- Paladin: Well, fortunately, the close ones don't count.
- Rheinhart: Mister, I've got enough stuff in bottles and jars to test every substance known to man, with the possible exception of the local mentality.
- Joe Peavey: Well, you got yourself another horse.
- Joseph Whitehorse: The one you shot cost me $20. You're going to have to pay for that.
- Joe Peavey: I'll wait for you at the county line and hand it to you as you go across.
- Paladin: I'm sorry, Mrs Whitehouse, I don't care to own land. It's a thing that grows to a man's feet. And that's not the kind of life I've chosen for myself.
- Paladin: Do you know the Whitehorses?
- Pharmicist Rheinhart: You mean our thieving, scalping, over-educated, local Indians? I do. And before you say your piece, let me inform you, this is the only store in town that will do business with them and proud to say it. Now what's on your mind?