- Capt. Brandywine Gage: [Discribing one of his men] He can peel a potato at twenty yards just by hating it.
- Lady Chi Ching: Would the American emperor do such a thing? Lie; make a false promise?
- Capt. Brandywine Gage: My dear child... go ask an Indian. An emperor is an emperor by any name you call him.
- Lady Chi Ching: Then honor is a children's game.