"'I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good,' the Golux said, 'by accident and happenchance. 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?' asked the minstrel.
'The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.'"
-The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber