Ma Stone Quotes in The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

[Ma Stone is reading out loud from the book of Job]

Mary Stone: Give me the book, Ma. I'm going to read us something cheerful from the book of Ruth. That is, if you don't mind changing the lesson.

Ma Stone: Land sakes, I don't mind. I never did hold much with Job, even if he is scripture. Took on too much to suit me. Course I don't want to malign the man; but he always sounded to me like he come from Massachusetts.

Jabez Stone: Money's a funny thing ain't it, Ma?

Ma Stone: I figure it depends a mite on how you get it and how you spend it.

Jabez Stone: But I don't spend any.

Ma Stone: But you should, son. That's all it's good for.

Jabez Stone: Do you really think that?

Ma Stone: That's just common sense. Now a man like Daniel Webster: guess they pay him high for what he does, but he's worth it. And he helps others... makes all the difference.

Jabez Stone: I know. But suppose a man got his money in bad ways?

Ma Stone: Wouldn't profit him none. You see, son: I'm old and I've lived. When a man gets his money in bad way... when he sees the better course and takes the worse... then the devil's in his heart. And that fixes him.

Jabez Stone: And yet... a man could change all that couldn't he?

Ma Stone: A man can always change things. That's what makes him different from the barnyard critters.

Jabez Stone: Money's a funny thing, Ma!

Ma Stone: I think it depends a lot on how you get it and how you spend it.

Ma Stone: A man can always change things. That's what makes him different from the barnyard critters.

Jabez Stone: Hessian gold!

Ma Stone: Well, I hope it'll do us more good than the Hessians.

Ma Stone: Well, thank the Lord you can always depend on New England for weather. We've got enough for the whole United States.