the possession of power brings on madness.
To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!
Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.