Solicitude about the future never profits; we feel no evil till it comes; and when we feel it, no counsel (Rath) helps us; wisdom is always too early or too late. Rückert.
Solid pudding against empty praise. Pope.
Solitude can be well applied and sit right upon but very few persons. They must have knowledge of the world to see the follies of it, and virtue enough to despise all the vanity. Cowley.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. Sydney Smith.
Solitude dulls the thought, too much company 20 dissipates it. (?)
Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection. Jeremy Taylor.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. Lowell.
Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. Emerson.
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. Thoreau.
Solitude is often the best society. Pr. 25