- Alexander Gow: You're in the Green Years Robbie, you suffer the critical disease of being young. The Lord deliver me from ever having to go through that again.
- Robert Shannon as a Young Man: [praying in church] A mans got to understand something. You have your faith and then things happen and they happen out of nowhere and they make no sense. A mans got to understand something. Why? Why? Why did this happen? Help me to understand. Help me.
- Alexander Gow: Some doctors believe you kick when you're in bed laddie. Well Dr. Galbraith believes in fresh air, personally I pit my faith on a little alcoholic stimulant.
- Alison Keith as a Young Woman: If a man have not friends at a time like this, then what are friends for?
- Lawyer McKellar: It was Dandy Gow's hope, Robert, that you'd spend the sum wisely on your education. But I seem to mind him saying, a sort of afterthought it was, that if you prefer to invest it in wine, women and song, that was your privilege.
- Kate Leckie: Oh that man! That man!
- Alexander Gow: There was a time when I did my business in twelve languages and sailed the seven seas. Now you may regard me as a retired citizen of the world.
- Blakely: There's no back door to medicine. Without money and a university degree the front door is shut in your face. I wish I could tell you otherwise.