SOCKET. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,' iii. 423.
SOFT. 'Sir, it is such a recommendation as if I should throw you out of a two pair of stairs window, and recommend to you to fall soft,' iv. 323.
SOLDIERS. 'Soldiers die scattering bullets,' v. 240.
SOLEMNITY. 'There must be a kind of solemnity in the manner of a professional man,' iv. 310.
SOLITARY. 'Be not solitary, be not idle' (Burton), iii. 415.
SOLITUDE. 'This full-peopled world is a dismal solitude,' iv. 147, n. 2.
SORROW. 'There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow,' iii. 137, n. 1.
SORRY. 'Sir, he said all that a man should say; he said he was sorry for it,' ii. 436.
SPARROWS. 'You may take a field piece to shoot sparrows, but all the sparrows you can bring home will not be worth the charge,' v. 261.
Spartam. 'Spartam quam nactus es orna,' iv. 379.