over the villany of the world to be
ruined after one's own pattern.--_Douglas Jerrold._

S.

~Sacrifice.~--You cannot win without sacrifice.--_Charles Buxton._

What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of
good-nature. The good-nature goes, the sacrifice sticks.--_Charles
Buxton._

~Sadness.~--Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul
incapable of sadness.--_Countess de Gasparin._

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.--_Thoreau._

~Salary.~--Other rules vary; this is the only one you will find without
exception: That in this world the salary or reward is always in the
inverse ratio of the duties performed.--_Sydney Smith._

~Sarcasm.~--A true sarcasm is like a sword-stick--it appears, at first
sight, to be much more innocent than it really is, till, all of a
sudden, there leaps something out of it--sharp and deadly and
incisive--which makes you tremble and recoil.--_Sydney Smith._

~Satire.~--To lash the vices of a guilty age.--_Churchill._

Thou shining supplement of public laws!--_Young._

By satire kept in awe, shrink from ridicule, though not from
law.--_Byron._

When dunces are satiric I take it for a panegyric.--_Swift._

~Scandal.~--Believe that story false that ought not to be
true.--_Sheridan._

Scandal has something so piquant, it is a sort of cayenne to the
mind.--_Byron._

~School.~--More is learned in a public than in a private school from
emulation: there is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of
many minds pointing to one centre--_Johnson._

Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age.
There is another personage abroad,--a person less imposing,--in the eyes
of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust
to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military
array.--_Brougham._

The whining school-boy, with his satchel, and shining morning face,
creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school.--_Shakespeare._

~Science.~--They may say what they like; everything is organized matter.
The tree is the first link of the chain, man is the last. Men are young,
the earth is old. Vegetable and animal chemistry are still in their
infancy. Electricity, galvanism,--what discoveries in a few
years!--_Napoleon._

Human science is uncertain guess.--_Prior._

Twin-sister of natural and revealed religion, and of heavenly birth,
science will never belie her celestial ori