Ben Cartwright

"I'm going home to sit in front of that big fireplace, and try to figure out where I went wrong as a father."

"Truth is something that always comes back to you, isn't it?"

"Old fools make poor fathers"

"I don't have anything against education - as long as it doesn't interfere with your thinking."

"That's the most unbelievable, cock and bull yarn I've ever heard."