“I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

~ Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice

“To believe every man to be honest till he is found out to be a thief, is a motto most self-respecting men cling to; but we detectives on the contrary would not gain salt to our bread, much less the bread itself, if we adopted such a belief. We have to believe every man a rogue till, after turning all sorts of evidence inside out, we can only discover he is an honest man. And even then I am much afraid we are not quite sure of him.”

~ Andrew Forrester,
The Female Detective (May 1864)