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

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.