- Charles Ingalls: You know we have a lot of funny notions born inside of us, Half-Pint. The funniest is that we're supposed to hide the way we feel about people. Let me tell you, everybody wants to know that they are loved, or needed, or cared about. Anybody who doesn't want to know that has something wrong with them.
- Hannibal Godfrey: You know, I bet you'd get pure joy hearing your wife's voice on this here machine.
- Harriet Oleson: Nels...
- Nels Oleson: The only joy I'd derive from that, Mr. Godfrey, I'm afraid it would be turning it off.
- Charles Ingalls: Where's Laura?
- Mary Ingalls: She said she was going to be late.
- Charles Ingalls: How come? She get a bad grade on a test again?
- Mary Ingalls: No, she's in love with a scientist.
- Harriet Oleson: [Nels has pulled a leather strap off the wall to punish Nellie] Nels! What are you going to do?
- Nels Oleson: Something i should've done years ago.
- Harriet Oleson: No! I won't hear of it!
- Nels Oleson: [Puts Harriet's hand on the crank of the talking machine] Crank! You won't have to!