- Batise: [Explaining to John Morgan the need to undergo the painful Sun Vow ritual before he can consummate his marriage to an Indian maiden] If no pain, nothing good is born. Even seed burst to make grass.
- John Morgan: It just occurred to me... I've traveled halfway around the world, at great expense, simply to kill a different kind of bird.
- Batise: [translating for Thorn Rose] No hole in moccasin... she tell you she is a virgin.
- John Morgan: I have no reason to doubt it.