- Joseph 'Little Joe' Cartwright: I can't speak real fancy like Shakespeare, and I don't agree with him.
- Amy Bishop: Why not?
- Joseph 'Little Joe' Cartwright: Well first of all, I can't compare you to a summer's day, 'cause you're more like a day in spring. Oh, I could talk real fancy and I could say that your eyes are like stars. And I could say that your mouth is like a rose. When I look at you, I just can't think of anything to say.
- Ben Cartwright: Are we so apart boy? I've never held my land above my sons. Before that'd happen, I'd destroy the Ponderosa.