Marion L. Starkey

It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.

— Marion L. Starkey

As every minister knows, a prayer is a superb device for airing an opinion.

— Marion L. Starkey

At such moments the voice of reason always sounds like blasphemy and dissenters are of the devil.

— Marion L. Starkey

Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one.

— Marion L. Starkey

A fact will often show poor and plain in contrast to the leapings of imagination.

— Marion L. Starkey

Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.

— Marion L. Starkey

People at large were not enjoying an intellectual awakening where so recently they had succumbed to superstitious panic.

— Marion L. Starkey

Being ignored was a therapy that had rarely been tried upon these girls.

— Marion L. Starkey

If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?

— Marion L. Starkey

Yes, he had been loyal to his friends, but even a wolf is loyal to other wolves.

— Marion L. Starkey

Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.

— Marion L. Starkey