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._

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.--_Gray._

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as
though they were sacred fillets upon his brow, and nothing is so
entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.--_Seneca._

Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self.--_Keats._

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being,
like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by
withstanding.--_Sir P. Sidney._

Never morning wore to evening, but some heart did break.--_Tennyson._

Sorrow being the natural and direct offspring of sin, that which first
brought sin into the world must, by necessary consequence, bring in
sorrow too.--_South._

In extent sorrow is boundless. It pours from ten million sources, and
floods the world. But its depth is small. It drowns few.--_Charles
Buxton._

It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another
that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these
dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our
peace.--_Chapin._

The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our
road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.--_Moore._

Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours; makes the night morning, and
the noontide night.--_Shakespeare._

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulat