- [first lines]
- Bart Maverick: [narrating] My old Pappy used to say, "There's nothing like a boat trip, if you're going some place by water." And as usual, Pappy was right. I was hoping the voyage from Sacramento to San Francisco would never end. Not only was I holding all the aces and kings, but the queen of San Francisco social and financial circles, as well.
- Bart Maverick: Believe me, sir, if anyone was gonna be sent in answer to a prayer, it would never be a Maverick.
- [last lines]
- Henry Albright: Well, Seth, we're finally gonna get our schools, churches and hospitals.
- Bart Maverick: As a poet once said, "Faith can move mountains."