- Paladin: I didn't come here to bushwhack you, but to challenge you to a duel. You didn't kill me last night when you had the opportunity, so I take it you also consider yourself a gentleman. Shall we settle it like gentlemen?
- Smoke: In the books there's a name for your kind. Yes, a paladin - a knight in shining armor, armed with a righteous cause and a lance.
- Paladin: Fused silica, lime, treated with mercury, polished, and in it a man can see what he is, and what he was.
- Paladin: Mr. Jefferson, if men have a common factor, it seems to me it's their ability to err. If a man's mistakes determine what he was, then what he does about those mistakes should determine what he is.