When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.

It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.