- Charles Ingalls: There's no doubt that boy needs help.
- Dr. Hiram Baker: His father needs help too.
- Charles Ingalls: Well, maybe you're a better Christian than I am, Doc. I don't care about his father. I just care about the boy.
- Caroline Ingalls: We came here to help the boy. All I hear talk about is punishing the father.
- Mr. Kennedy: He's earned punishment!
- Caroline Ingalls: Hurt the father and you hurt the boy, because he loves his father. Destroy the father, and you destroy the boy.
- Charles Ingalls: I sure miss my wife. When'd you lose yours?
- John Stewart: A long time ago.
- Charles Ingalls: What was her name?
- John Stewart: Lucy.
- Charles Ingalls: How'd she die?
- John Stewart: What's the difference?
- Charles Ingalls: Nothing to me, I just wondered... What'd she die of?
- John Stewart: She died giving birth to the boy.
- Charles Ingalls: I guess that's why you blame him for her death.
- John Stewart: Why I what?
- Charles Ingalls: Why you blame the boy for his mother's death.
- John Stewart: I don't do that.
- Charles Ingalls: Sure you do. You tell him that every time you beat him. You say he is why his mother died.
- Graham Stewart: That big one... he'll probably lay a ton of eggs too.
- Mary Ingalls: That's a rooster. A boy chicken. Boy chickens don't lay eggs.
- Graham Stewart: Then how do you tell which is which?
- Mary Ingalls: They're just... well, they're different. You know... different. Boy chickens are like Pas and girl chickens are like Mas and... Well, there's one way to tell. If you lift a girl chicken off the nest, there'll be an egg under her.
- Graham Stewart: Boy chicken... no egg.