Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.