Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.