~Soldier.~--A soldier seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's
mouth.--_Shakespeare._
Policy goes beyond strength, and contrivance before action; hence it is
that direction is left to the commander, execution to the soldier, who
is not to ask Why? but to do what he is commanded.--_Xenophon._
Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm
himself at no home-lit hearth.--_Schiller._
Soldiers looked at as they ought to be: they are to the world as poppies
to corn fields.--_Douglas Jerrold._
~Solitude.~--Solitude is dangerous to reason without being favorable to
virtue. Pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to
the corporal health, and those who resist gayety will be likely for the
most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite, for the solicitations of
sense are always at hand, and a dram to a vacant and solitary person is
a speedy and seducing relief. Remember that the solitary person is
certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. The mind
stagnates for want of employment, and is extinguished, like a candle in
foul air.--_Johnson._
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the
only pleasing solitude.--_Addison._
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of
genius.--_Gibbon._
Solitude has but one disadvantage; it is apt to give one too high an
opinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of
every known or supposed defect we may have.--_Byron._
Through the wide world he only is alone who lives not for
another.--_Rogers._
Solitude is the worst of all companions when we seek comfort and
oblivion.--_Mery._
~Sophistry.~--The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in
using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in
the conclusion.--_Coleridge._
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability
resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out,
straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention
and jangling.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
~Sorrow.~--Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest
thought.--_Shelley._
If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I
do as truly suffer as e'er I did commit.--_Shakespeare._