It is all in the way of professional experience.
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.