"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happen chance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire."

James Thurber's The 13 clocks (ed. 1976)