- Bridget: Are you all right, Miss Armstrong?
- Armstrong: Yes, why?
- Jack Trotter: Well, you said something nice.
- Armstrong: I can't compliment Mrs. Bauer's cooking?
- Mrs. Bauer: Oh, you can, but it's just so unlike you.
- Mrs. Astor: President Arthur is a nice man, and I believe he was successful as a lawyer. But his origins are not exactly inspiring.
- Norman Tate: To reveal now that the Brooklyn Bridge is largely the work of a woman would make men afraid to cross it.
- Arthur Scott: The only reason they ever trusted me in the first place is because a white pharmacist told them to.
- Arthur Scott: Well, the Globe can praise our colored teachers to the heavens, but none of those white parents will send their children to our schools unless they are persuaded by someone white. And we may have to recruit some white teachers too.
- Dr. Lewis: I'm afraid at this stage, it's out of my hands. We can only pray.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: That's a clever way to shirk your responsibility.
- Dorothy Scott: Don't spend all your time writing about other folks' lives and forget to live your own.
- George Russell: Do you think she plans to steal him away?
- Bertha Russell: Mrs. Astor won't steal him. If she wants him, she'll buy him fair and square.
- Larry Russell: Well, at least now you'll have the recognition you deserve.
- Emily Warren Roebling: I'm afraid these things are a little more complicated than that. They will print that I was a wonderful wife who served her husband to the best of her abilities. They will ignore the true nature of my contribution. That will be our secret.