- Title card: GOLD - GOLD - GOLD - GOLD. Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold, Molten, Graven, Hammered, Rolled, Hard to Get and Light to Hold; Stolen, Borrowed, Squandered - Doled.
- [Prologue title card]
- Title card: I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth; I knew it for the truth then, and I know it for the truth now. FRANK NORRIS.
- Trina: [looking in her change purse full of coins, closes it] I got no small change, Mac.
- [McTeague pays for her orchid]
- Title card: Trina's miserly attitude grew steadily through the following months... but her brusque outburst of affection kept her tolerable to the slow-thinking McTeague.
- McTeague: The part I liked best was the guy that played 'Nearer My God to Thee' on the beer bottles.
- Title Card: First... chance had brought them face to face; now... mysterious instincts, as ungovernable as the winds of the heavens, were knitting their lives together.
- Lottery Agent: On presentation of your ticket... you will receive a check for five thousand dollars!