Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

What a lovely thing a rose is!

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.