Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

The dragon without St. George would not even be grotesque.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.