The more I see of men the better I think of animals.—Tauler.
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.