The great in Evil, and the great in [Goodness|Good]]—both leave an immortal residue. - Michael Shea

The essence of nightmare lies less in the simple experience of horrors than in the unpreventable fruition of horrors foreknown.

I have in mind the notion that is so fashionable nowadays, namely that we live in a Dark Age where puny Science quails before many a dim Unknown on every hand. Surely this sort of facile pessimism dampens the energy of inquiry even as it leads to obscurantism—toward a despair of certainty which encourages us to embrace truths, half-truths, and the most extravagant falsehoods with a promiscuous lack of discrimination.

Good soldiers stay alive by being unsentimental and having a quick eye for the main chance.