War, - the trade of barbarians! [ Napoleon I ]

The sex is ever to a soldier kind. [ Homer ]

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead. [ Theodore O'Hara ]

A bright musket, but a ragged soldier. [ Tilly ]

Against the flying ball no valor avails. [ Luther ]

War mends but few, and spoils multitudes. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Soldier, rest! thy warfare over.
Dream of fighting fields no more;
Sleep the sleep that knows not breakings,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. [ Scott ]

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The worse the man, the better the soldier. [ Napoleon I ]

Ah! what a pleasure it is to be a soldier. [ Boieldieu ]

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried:
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried. [ Rev. C. Wolfe ]

The victor's pastime, and the sport of war. [ Prior ]

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. [ Hen. V ]

May that soldier a mere recreant prove
That means not, hath not, or is not in love! [ William Shakespeare ]

A lord without riches is a soldier without arms. [ Proverb ]

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. [ Emerson ]

Let choler be only a common soldier, not a commander. [ Proverb ]

He a soldier, and knows not onion-seed from gun-powder? [ Proverb ]

To take from a soldier ambition, is to take off his spurs. [ Proverb ]

You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. [ William Shakespeare ]

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple. [ Thoreau ]

He speaks home; you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. [ William Shakespeare ]

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last. [ Fielding ]

A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand enemies. [ Scipio ]

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? [ Walter Scott ]

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man, disagreeable. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

What matters it that a soldier has a sword of dazzling finish, of the keenest edge, and finest temper, if he has never learned the art of fence. [ William Matthews ]

Government began in tyranny and force, in the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. [ Wendell Phillips ]

The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. [ Whipple ]

The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]