The Murders in the Rue Morgue

I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.

Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyse.

the sole methods

are obtained by superior acumen

If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed resulting in injury or defeat

take occasion to assert

No words – no sounds resembling words – were by any witness mentioned as distinguishable.

upon the brink of

ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.