- Paladin: Silver, where do you work?
- Silver Strike: In the stable, in the mine, shovelling, sweeping. I work where they got dirt.
- Paladin: What if you refuse?
- Silver Strike: Pa clouts me.
- Paladin: [First lines] Going to school is a child's work, Moriarity. You say he'll work for me, I say he'll go to school. Now get out of my way.
- Paladin: You don't have to be afraid, boy, he's not gonna use that gun. Because he didn't go to the school that I did. That's the school that teaches you how to kill a man before he can get his gun out of his holster.