Dictionary of Quotations

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S'abstenir pour jouir, c'est l'épicurisme de la raison—To abstain so as to enjoy is the epicurism of reason. Rousseau.

'S gibt kein schöner Leben als Studentenleben—There is no more beautiful life than that of the student. Fr. Albrecht.

S'il est vrai, il peut être—It may be, if it is true. Fr. Pr.

S'il fait beau, prends ton manteau; s'il pleut, prends-le si tu veux—If the weather is fine, take your cloak; if it rains, do as you please. Fr. Pr.

S'il y a beaucoup d'art à savoir parler à propos, 45 il n'y en a pas moins à savoir se taire—If it requires great tact to know how to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. La Roche.

S'il y avait un peuple de dieux, il se gouvernerait démocratiquement. Un gouvernement si parfait ne convient pas des hommes—If there were a community of gods, the government would be democratic. A government so perfect is not suitable for men. Rousseau.

'S ist nichts so schlimm, als man wohl denkt / Wenn man's nur recht erfasst und lenkt—There is nothing so bad as we think it if only we would apprehend and guide it aright. Friedrich-Flotow.

'S wird besser gehen! 's wird besser gehen! / Die Welt ist rund und muss sich drehen—Things will mend! will mend! The world is round, and must needs spin round. Wohlbrück-Marschner.

Saat, dich säet der Herr dem grossen Tage der Ernte—Seed, the Lord sows thee for the great day of harvest. Klopstock.

Saat, von Gott gesäet, dem Tage der Garben zu reifen—Seed sown by God, to ripen against the day of the sheaf-binding. Klopstock.

Sabbath-days, quiet islands on the tossing sea of life. S. W. Duffield.

Sabbath profaned, / Whate'er may be gained, / Is sure to be followed by sorrow. Pr.

Sabbath well spent / Brings a week of content. 5 Pr.

Sacco pieno rizza l'orecchio—A full sack pricks up (lit. erects) its ear. It. Pr.

Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world; that he is aiming neither at self nor comfort, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind. Emerson.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself, in theological language, into the love of God. Froude.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. Amiel.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, 10 has never been the law of societies. Amiel.

Sacrificed his life to the delineating of life. Goethe, of Schiller.

Sacrificio dell' intelletto—Sacrifice of intellect. Frederick the Great to D'Alembert.

Sad natures are most tolerant of gaiety. Amiel.

Sad souls are slain in merry company. / Grief best is pleased with grief's society; / True sorrow then is feelingly sufficed / When with like semblance it is sympathised. Shakespeare.

Sad wise valour is the brave complexion / 15 That leads the van and swallows up the cities. George Herbert.

Sad with the whole of pleasure. D. G. Rossetti.

Sadness and gladness succeed each other. Pr.

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, / Sae dauntingly gaed he; / He play'd a spring, and danced it round, / Beneath the gallows-tree. Burns.

Säen ist nicht so beschwerlich als ernten—Sowing is not so difficult as reaping. Goethe.

Sæpe decipimur specie recti—We are often misled 20 by the appearance of truth. Hor.

Sæpe est etiam sub palliolo sordido sapientia—Wisdom is often found even under a shabby coat. Pr.

Sæpe Faunorum voces exauditæ, / Sæpe visæ formæ deorum—Voices of Fauns are often heard, and shapes of gods often seen.

Sæpe in conjugiis fit noxia, cum nimia est dos—Quarrels often arise in marriages when the dowry is excessive. Auson.

Sæpe ingenia calamitate intercidunt—Genius often goes to waste through misfortune. Phæd.

Sæpe nihil inimicus homini quam sibi ipse—Often 25 a man is his own worst enemy. Cic.

Sæpe premente Deo, fert Deus alter opem—Often when we are oppressed by one deity, another comes to our help.

Sæpe stylum vertas, iterum quæ digna legi sint / Scripturus; neque, te ut miretur turba, labores / Contentus paucis lectoribus—You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and labour not for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. Hor.

Sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent—The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. Plaut.

Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet—Often a silent countenance is expressive (lit. has a voice and speaks). Ovid.

Sæpe via obliqua præstat quam tendere recta—It 30 is often better to go the circuitous way than the direct one.

Sæpius ventis agitatur ingens / Pinus, et celsæ graviore casu / Decidunt turres, feriuntque summos / Fulmina montes—The huge pine is more frequently shaken by the winds, high towers fall with a heavier crash, and it is the mountain-tops that the thunderbolts strike. Hor.

Sæva paupertas, et avitus apto cum lare fundus—Stern poverty, and an ancestral piece of land with a dwelling to match. Hor.

Sævi inter se conveniunt ursi—Even savage bears agree among themselves. Juv.

Sævis tranquillus in undis—Calm in the raging waters. M. of William I. of Orange.

Safe bind, safe find. Pr. 35

Sag' eine Lüge, so hörst du die Wahrheit—Tell a lie, you will then hear the truth. Ger. Pr.

Sahest du nie die Schönheit im Augenblicke des Leidens, / Niemals hast du die Schönheit gesehn. / Sahest du die Freude nie in einem schönen Gesichte, / Niemals hast du die Freude gesehn—If thou hast never seen beauty in the moment of suffering, thou hast never seen beauty at all. If thou hast never seen joy in a beautiful countenance, thou hast never seen joy at all. Schiller.

Said will be a little ahead, but Done should follow at his heel. Spurgeon.

Saint cannot, if God will not. Fr. Pr.

Saints are sad, because they behold sin (even 40 when they speculate) from the point of view of the conscience, and not of the intellect. Emerson.

Sal atticum—Attic salt; wit.

Sal sapit omnia—Salt seasons everything. M.

Salle-à-manger—A dining-room. Fr.

Salon—A drawing-room; a picture gallery or exhibition. Fr.

Salt and bread make the cheeks red. Ger. Pr. 45

Salt is good, but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. Jesus.

Salt is white and pure; there is something holy in salt. Hawthorne.

Salt spilt is never all gathered up. Sp. and Port. Pr.

Saltabat elegantius, quam necesse est probæ—She danced more daintily than a virtuous woman should. Sall., of Sempronia.

Salus per Christum redemptorem—Salvation 50 through Christ the Redeemer. M.

Salus populi suprema est lex—The well-being of the people is the supreme law. L.

Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. / Dare to look in thy chest, for 'tis thine own, / And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. George Herbert.

Salva conscientia—Without compromise of conscience.

Salva dignitate—Without compromising one's dignity.

Salva fide—Without breaking one's word.

Salve, magna parens—Hail! thou great parent! Virg.

Salvo jure—Saving the right.

Salvo ordine—Without dishonour to one's order.

Salvo pudore—With a proper regard to decency. 5

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. Petrarch.

Sammle dich zu jeglichem Geschäfte, / Nie zersplittre deine Kräfte—Gather thyself up for every task, never dissipate (lit. split up) thy powers. Bodenstedt.

Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he got it. Ger. Pr.

Sanan llagas, y no malas palabras—Wounds heal, but not ill words. Sp. Pr.

Sands form the mountains, moments make the 10 year. Young.

Sane baro—A baron indeed. M.

Sang-froid—Indifference; apathy; coolness. Fr.

Sanno più un savio ed un matto che un savio solo—A wise man and a fool know more than a wise man alone. It. Pr.

Sans changer—Without changing. Fr.

Sans Dieu rien—Nothing without God. Fr. 15

Sans façon—Without ceremony. Fr.

Sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. Ce toucher sûr par qui la lyre ne rend que le son qu'elle doit rendre, est encore plus rare que la faculté qui crée—Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch by which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. Chateaubriand.

Sans les femmes les deux extrémités de la vie seroient sans secours, et le milieu sans plaisir—Without woman the two extremities of life would be destitute of succour, and the middle without pleasure. Fr.

Sans peur et sans reproche—Fearless and blameless. Surname of the Chevalier Bayard.

Sans phrase—Without phrase; without amplification; 20 simply. Fr.

Sans Souci—"No bother" here. Name given by Frederick the Great to his country-house at Potsdam.

Sans tache—Without stain. M.

Sanctio justa, jubens honesta, et prohibens contraria—A just decree, enforcing what is honourable and forbidding the contrary. Bracton.

Sanctum est vetus omne poema—Every old poem is sacred. Hor.

Sic vos non vobis—Thus do ye labour not for 25 yourselves. Virg.

Sanctum sanctorum—Holy of holies; a study; a private room.

Sanctus haberi / Justitiæque tenax, factis dictisque mereris? / Agnosco procerem—If you deserve to be held a man without blame, and tenacious of justice both in word and deed, then I recognise in you the nobleman. Juv.

Sapere aude—Dare to be wise. M.

Sapere isthac ætate oportet, qui sunt capite candido—They who have grey heads are old enough to be wise. Plaut.

Sapiens dominabitur astris—A wise man will 30 lord it over the stars. Pr.

Sapiens nihil facit invitus, nihil dolens, nihil coactus—A wise man does nothing against his will, nothing with repining or under coercion. Cic.

Sapiens qui prospicit—He is wise who looks ahead. M.

Sapientem pascere barbam—To cultivate a philosophic beard. Hor.

Sapienti sat—Enough for a wise man. Plaut.

Sapientissimus in septem—The wisest of the 35 seven, viz., Thales. Cic.

Sapientum octavus—The eighth of the wise men. Hor.

Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. Byron.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil. Carlyle.

Sarcasm poisons reproof. E. Wigglesworth.

Sardonicus risus—A sardonic laugh; a forced 40 ironical laugh.

Sartor resartus—The tailor patched.

Sat cito si sat bene—Quick enough, if well enough. Cato.

Sat pulchra, si sat bona—Fair enough, if good enough.

Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do. Watts.

Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door. 45 Pr.

Satan himself is now transformed into an angel of light. St. Paul.

Satan now is wiser than of yore, / And tempts by making rich, not making poor. Pope.

Satan trembles when he sees / The weakest saint upon his knees. Cowper.

Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety. Solon.

Satire has a power of fascination that no other 50 written thing possesses. S. Lane-Poole.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Swift.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, / Wound with a touch that is scarcely seen. Lady M. Montagu.

Satires run faster than panegyrics. Pr.

Satis diu vel naturæ vel gloriæ—Long enough for the demands both of nature or of glory.

Satis eloquentiæ, sapientiæ parum—Fine talk 55 enough, but little wisdom. Sall.

Satis est orare Jovem, quæ donat et aufert; / Det vitam, det opes, æquum mi animum ipse parabo—It is enough to pray to Jove for those things which he gives and takes away; let him grant life, let him grant wealth; I myself will provide myself with a well-poised mind. Hor.

Satis quod sufficit—Enough is as good as a feast (lit. what suffices is enough).

Satis superque est—Enough, and more than enough.

Satis superque me benignitas tua / Ditavit—Your bounty has enriched me enough, and more than enough. Hor.

Satis verborum—Enough of words. 60

Satis vixi; invictus enim morior—I have lived enough; I die unvanquished. Epaminondas in Corn. Nep.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence. Schopenhauer.

Satius est recurrere, quam currere male—It is better to run back than run on the wrong way. Pr.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Pr.

Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem / Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit—The wounded gladiator forswears fighting, and yet, forgetful of his former wound, he takes up arms again.

Säume nicht, dich zu erdreisten, / Wenn die Menge zaudernd schweift; / Alles kann der Edle leisten / Der versteht und rasch ergreift—If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike thou in swift with all boldness; the noble heart that understands and seizes quick hold of opportunity can achieve everything. Goethe.

Sauter du coq à l'âne!—To change the subject 5 abruptly; to talk at cross purposes.

Sauve qui peut—Save himself who can.

Save a man from his friends, and leave him to struggle with his enemies. (?)

Save a thief from the gallows, and he'll cut your throat. Pr.

Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, / You heavenly guards. Ham., iii. 4.

Save something for a sore foot. Pr. 10

Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois—To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. Richelieu.

Savoir-faire—Skill; tact.

Savoir-vivre—Good breeding; good manners. Fr.

Savor (desire) no more than thee behoven shall, / Rede well thyself that other folks can rede, / And truth thee shalt deliver—'tis no drede. Chaucer.

Say little and say well. Gael. Pr. 15

Say nay, and take it. Pr.

Say no ill of the year till it be past. Pr.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. Claudius.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work. Bible.

Say not, / This with that lace will do well; / 20 But, This with my discretion will be brave. George Herbert.

Say not to-morrow; the tongue's slightest slip / Nemesis watches, ere it pass the lip. Antiphilus.

Say not, We will suffer, for that ye must; say rather, We will act, for that ye must not (i.e., we are compelled to do the one, but not the other). Jean Paul.

Say nothing, and none can criticise thee. Spurgeon.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you wilt be taken at your word. Joseph Roux.

Say, O wise man, how thou hast come by such 25 knowledge? Because I never was ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. Herder.

"Say well" is good, but "Do well" is better. Pr.

Say well or be still. Pr.

Say, what is taste, but the internal pow'rs / Active and strong, and feelingly alive / To each fine impulse? Akenside.

Saying and doing are two different things. Pr.

Scald not thy lips with another man's porridge. 30 Pr.

Scandal breeds hatred, hatred begets divisions, division makes faction, and faction brings ruin. Quarles.

Scandal ever improves by opposition. Goldsmith.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. W. B. Clulow.

Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by innumerable streams, and it is extremely difficult to trace it to its source. Punch.

Scandal will not rub out like dirt when it is 35 dry. Pr.

Scandalum magnatum—An offence against the nobility or a person in high station. L.

Scarcely anything is perfectly plain but what is also perfectly common. Carlyle.

Scarcely love's utmost may in heaven be; / To hell it reacheth, so 'tis love at all. Louise S. Bevington.

Scarcely one man in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Fielding.

Scarceness is what there is the biggest stock 40 of in the country. George Eliot.

Scarceness o' victual 'ull keep; there's no need to be hasty wi' the cooking. George Eliot.

Scatter with one hand, gather with two. Pr.

Scelere velandum est scelus—One crime has to be concealed by another. Sen.

Scepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith. Chapin.

Scepticism is not an end but a beginning, is as 45 the decay of old ways of believing, the preparation afar off for new, wider, and better. Carlyle.

Scepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores; but which he sees to be reverent only in their tendency and spirit. Emerson.

Scepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. Emerson.

Scepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, and spiritual paralysis. Carlyle.

Scepticism, with its innumerable mischiefs, what is it but the sour fruit of a most blessed increase, that of knowledge; a fruit, too, that will not always continue sour. (?)

Scepticism writing about belief may have great 50 gifts; but it is really ultra vires there. It is blindness laying down the laws of optics. Carlyle.

Schadet ein Irrtum wohl? Nicht immer! aber das Irren / Immer schadet's. Wie sehr, sieht man am Ende des Wegs—Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. Goethe.

Schall und Rauch umnebeln Himmels-Gluth—Sound and smoke overclouding heaven's splendour. Goethe.

Schäme dich deines Handwerks nicht—Think no shame of your craft. Ger. Pr.

Schwärmerei—An enthusiasm with which one or a mass of people is infected. Ger.

Scheiden, ach Scheiden, Scheiden thut weh!—Parting, ah! parting; parting makes the heart ache. Herloszsohn.

Scherze nicht mit Ernst—Jest not in earnest. M.

Schick dich in die Zeit—Adapt yourself to the times. Ger. Pr.

Schicksal und eigene Schuld—Fate and one's own deservings.

Schlägt die Zeit dir manche Wunde, / Manche 5 Freude bringt ihr Lauf; / Aber eine sel'ge Stunde / Wiegt ein Jahr von Schmerzen auf—If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. Geibel.

Schlägt dir die Hoffnung fehl, nie fehle dir das Hoffen! / Ein Thor ist zugethan, doch tausend sind dir offen—Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. Rückert.

Schlagt ihn tot den Hund! Er ist Rezensent—Strike the dog dead! it's but a critic. Goethe.

Schlechtes sucht mit Gutem Streit—Bad keeps up a strife with good. Bodenstedt.

Schliesst eure Herzen sorgfältiger, als eure Thore—Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. Goethe.

Schmerz und Liebe ist des Menschen Teil / 10 Der dem Weltgeschick nicht feig entwichen, / Zieht er aus dem Busen sich den Pfeil, / Ist er für die Welt und Gott verblichen—Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. N. Lenau.

Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing saving their own ignorance. Zimmermann.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. J. G. Holland.

Schön ist der Friede! Ein lieblicher Knabe / Liegt er gelagert am ruhigen Bach.... / Aber der Krieg auch hat seine Ehre, / Der Beweger des Menschensgeschicks—Beautiful is Peace! A lovely boy lies he reclining by a quiet rill. But war too has its honour, the promoter as it is of the destiny of man. Schiller.

Schön sind die Rosen eurer Jugend; / Allein die Zeit zerstöret sie. / Nur die Talente, nur die Tugend / Veralten nicht und sterben nie—Beautiful are the roses of your youth; but time destroys them; only talents, only virtue age not and never die. Pfeffel.

Schöne Blumen stehen nicht lange am Wege—Fair 15 flowers are not left standing long by the wayside. Ger. Pr.

Schönheit bändigt allen Zorn—Beauty allays all angry feeling. Goethe.

Schrecklich blicket ein Gott, da wo Sterbliche weinen—Dreadful looks a God, where mortals weep. Goethe.

Schuim is geen bier—Froth is no beer. Dut. Pr.

Schweig, oder rede etwas, das ist besser denn Schweigen—Be silent, or say something that is better than silence. Ger. Pr.

Schweigen ist das Heiligthum der Klugheit. 20 Es birgt nicht bloss Geheimnisse, sondern auch Fehler—Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. It conceals not merely secrets, but blemishes. Zachariä.

Schweigen können zeugt von Kraft, schweigen wollen von Nachsicht, schweigen müssen vom Geist der Zeit—To be able to be silent testifies of power, to will to be silent of indulgence, to be obliged to be silent of the spirit of the time. C. J. Weber.

Schwer ist es, aus dem Geschrei erhitzter Parteien die Stimme der Wahrheit zu unterscheiden—It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated partisans. Schiller.

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. Emerson.

Science corrects the old creeds... and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses. Emerson.

Science deals exclusively with things as they 25 are in themselves. Ruskin.

Science dissects death. F. W. Robertson.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Emerson.

Science falsely so called. St. Paul.

Science must have originated in the feeling of something being wrong. Carlyle.

Science has been seriously retarded by the 30 study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. Goethe.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. Carlyle.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty. C. H. Parkhurst.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. Holmes.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. Bulwer Lytton.

Science is busy with the hither-end of 35 things, not the thither-end. C. H. Parkhurst.

Science / Is but an exchange of ignorance for that / Which is another kind of ignorance. Byron.

Science is for those who learn, poetry for those who know. J. Roux.

Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense. Huxley.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. Moses Harvey.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, 40 not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. Ruskin.

Science is the systematic classification of experience. G. H. Lewes.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. Ruskin.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; (but) a creed is always sensitive. Froude.

Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Hare.

Scientia nihil aliud est quam veritatis imago—Science is but an image of the truth. Bacon.

Scientia popinæ—The art of cookery.

Scientia quæ est remota a justitia, calliditas 5 potius quam sapientia est appellanda—Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Cic.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. Disraeli.

Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. Horace Mann.

Scilicet expectes, ut tradet mater honestos / Atque alios mores, quam quos habet?—Can you expect that the mother will teach good morals or others than her own. Juv.

Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus—The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. Virg.

Scio cui credidi—I know in whom I have believed. 10 M.

Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es—I know it; you are constrained by your inclination. Ter.

Scire facias—Cause it to be known. L.

Scire potestates herbarum usumque medendi—To know the virtues of herbs and their use in healing. Virg.

Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter—It is nothing for you to know a thing unless another knows that you know it. Pers.

Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum 15 maxima pars eruditionis est—To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.

Scire volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo—All would like to know, but few to pay the price. Juv.

Scire volunt secreta domus, atque inde timeri—They wish to know of the family secrets, and so to be feared. Juv.

Scit genius, natale comes qui temperet astrum—The genius, our companion, who rules our natal star, knows. Hor.

Scoglio immoto contro le onde sta—He stands like a rock unmoved against the waves. M.

Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree; / 20 Love is a present for a mighty king,—/ Much less make any one thine enemy. As guns destroy, so may a little sling. George Herbert.

Scorn to trample upon a worm or to sneak to be an emperor. Saadi.

Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn, / Is that a matter to make me fret? / That a calamity hard to be borne? Tennyson.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, / Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, / Welcome to your gory bed, / Or to victory! / Now's the day and now's the hour; / See the front o' battle lour; / See approach proud Edward's power, / Chains and slavery. Burns.

Scotsmen reckon ay frae an ill hour. Pr.

Screw not the chord too sharply lest it snap. 25 Pr.

Screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we'll not fail. Macb., i. 7.

Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons—Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing. Hor.

Scribere scientes—Knowing, or skilled, in writing. M.

Scribimus indocti doctique—All of us, unlearned and learned, alike take to writing. Hor.

Scripture, like Nature, lays down no definitions. 30 Spinoza.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of heart, are frequently the lot of the most excellent persons. Thomas à Kempis.

Sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry. Emerson.

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. Ruskin.

Sculpture, the tongue on the balance of expression. Quoted by Emerson.

S'échauffer au dépens du bon Dieu—To warm 35 one's self in the sun (lit. at the expense of the good god). M.

Se a ciascuno l'interno affanno / Si leggesse in fronte scritto, / Quanti mai che invidia fanno / Ci farebbero pietà!—If the secret sorrows of every one could be read on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would become objects of pity! It.

Se il giovane sapesse, se il vecchio potesse, e' non c' è cosa che non si facesse—If the young knew, and the old could, there is nothing which would not be done. It. Pr.

Se'l sol mi splende, non curo la luna—If the sun shines on me, I care not for the moon. It. Pr.

Se la moglie pecca, non è il marito innocente—If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. It. Pr.

Se laisser prendre aux apparences—To let one's 40 self be imposed on by appearances. Fr. Pr.

Se moquer de la philosophie, c'est vraiment philosopher—To jest at the expense of philosophy is truly to philosophise. Pascal.

Se non è vero, è ben trovato—If it is not true, it is cleverly invented. It. Pr.

Se retirer dans un fromage de Hollande—To retire into a Dutch cheese, i.e., to be contented. La Fontaine.

Se tu segui tua stella—Follow thou thy own star. Dante.

Sea Islanders; but a real human heart, with 45 Divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. Holmes.

Sea things that be / On the hot sand fainting long, / Revive with the kiss of the sea. Lewis Morris.

Seamen have a custom when they meet a whale to fling out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. Swift.

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid; / Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. Denham.

Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices. Fuller.

Searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found my own. As You Like It, ii. 4.

Second thoughts, they say, are best. Dryden.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it. Goethe.

Secrecy is best taught by commencing with ourselves. Chamfort.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. Jeremy 5 Taylor.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Carlyle.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Quoted by Colton.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. Colton.

Secret et hardi—Secret and bold. M.

Secreta hæc murmura vulgi—Those secret whisperings 10 of the populace. Juv.

Secrete amicos admone, lauda palam—Advise your friends in private, praise them openly. Pub. Syr.

Secrets make a dungeon of the heart and a jailer of its owner. Amer. Pr.

Secrets travel fast in Paris. Napoleon.

Sects of men are apt to be shut up in sectarian ideas of their own, and to be less open to new general ideas than the main body of men. Matthew Arnold.

Secundis dubiisque rectus—Upright, whether in 15 prosperous or in critical circumstances. M.

Secundo amne defluit—He floats with the stream.

Secundum artem—According to the rules of art.

Secundum genera—According to classes.

Secundum usum—According to usage or use.

Security, / Is mortals' chiefest enemy. Macbeth, 20 iii. 5.

Security will produce danger. Johnson.

Securus judicat orbis terrarum—The world's judgment is unswayed by fear. St. Augustine.

Sed de me ut sileam—But to say nothing of myself. Ovid.

Sed nisi peccassem, quid tu concedere posses? / Materiam veniæ sors tibi nostra dedit—Had I not sinned, what had there been for thee to pardon? My fate has given thee the matter for mercy. Ovid.

Sed notat hunc omnis domus et vicinia tota, / 25 Introrsum turpem, speciosum pelle decora—But all his family and the entire neighbourhood regard him as inwardly base, and only showy outside. Hor.

Sed quum res hominum tanta caligine volvi / Adspicerem, lætosque diu florere nocentes, / Vexarique pios: rursus labefacta cadebat / Religio—When I beheld human affairs involved in such dense darkness, the guilty exulting in their prosperity, and pious men suffering wrong, what religion I had began to reel backward and fall. Claud.

Sed tu / Ingenio verbis concipe plura meis?—But do you of your own ingenuity take up more than my words? Ovid.

Sed vatem egregium cui non sit publica vena, / Qui nihil expositum soleat deducere, nec qui / Communi feriat carmen triviale moneta, / Hunc qualem nequeo monstrare, et sentio tantum, / Anxietate carens animus facit—A poet of superior merit, whose vein is of no vulgar kind, who never winds off anything trite, nor coins a trivial poem at the public mint, I cannot describe, but only recognise as a man whose soul is free from all anxiety. Juv.

See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. Carlyle.

See how many things there are which a man 30 cannot do himself; and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to say, "that a friend is another himself;" for that a friend is far more than himself. Bacon.

See Naples, and then die. It. Pr.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. Socrates.

See that no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall, in his brother's way. St. Paul.

See that you come not to woo honour, but to wed it. All's Well, ii. 1.

See the conquering hero comes! / Sound the 35 trumpet, beat the drums! Dr. Thomas Morell.

See this last and this hammer (said the poor cobbler); that last and this hammer are the two best friends I have in this world; nobody else will be my friend, because I want a friend. Goldsmith.

See thou explain the infinite through the finite, and the unintelligible only through the intelligible, and not inversely. Bodenstedt.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such. Ward Beecher.

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. Rom. and Jul., v. 3.

See, what is good lies by thy side. Goethe. 40

Seein's believin', but feelin's the naked truth. Sc. Pr.

Seeing the root of the matter is found in me. Bible.

Seek, and ye shall find. Jesus.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, /... Fools to flatter, and raiment fine, /... And nothing of God shall e'er be thine. Dr. W. Smith.

Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge 45 the fatherless, plead for the widow. Bible.

Seek not thyself without thyself to find. Dryden.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd; / Joys only flow where fate is most conceal'd; / Too busy man would find his sorrows more, / If future fortunes he should know before; / For by that knowledge of his destiny / He would not live at all, but always die. Dryden.

Seek not to reform every one's dial by your own watch. Pr.

Seek one good, one end, so zealously, that nothing else may come into competition or partnership with it. Thomas à Kempis.

Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility or softness, which taketh an honest mind prisoner. Bacon.

Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour. Pr.

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; / A woman's noblest station is retreat. Lyttelton.

Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. Bacon.

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call 5 ye upon him while he is near. Bible.

Seek your salve where you got your sore. Pr.

Seekest thou great things? seek them not. Jeremiah.

Seeking for a God there, and not here; everywhere outwardly in physical nature, and not inwardly in our own soul, where He alone is to be found by us, begins to get wearisome. Carlyle.

Seeking nothing, he gains all; foregoing self, the universe grows "I." Sir Edwin Arnold.

Seeking the bubble reputation, / Even in the 10 cannon's mouth. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Seele des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wasser! / Schicksal des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wind!—Soul of man, how like art thou to water! Lot of man, how like art thou to wind! Goethe.

Seelenstärke ohne Seelengrösse bildet die bösartigen Charakters—Strength of soul without greatness of soul goes but to form evil-disposed characters. Weber.

Seem I not as tender to him / As any mother? / Ay, but such a one / As all day long hath rated at her child, / And vext his day, but blesses him asleep. Tennyson.

Seeming triumph o'er God's saints / Lasts but a little hour. Winkworth.

Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not 15 "seems." / 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black. / Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, / Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage, / Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, / That can denote truly; these, indeed, seem, / For they are actions that a man can play: / But I have that within, which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Ham., i. 2.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Bible.

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Bible.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Bible.

Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty. Much Ado, iii. 3.

Segnius homines bona quam mala sentiunt—Men 20 are not so readily sensible of benefits as of injuries.

Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, / Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus—What we learn merely through the ear makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. Hor.

Sehr leicht zerstreut der Zufall was er sammelt; / Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an / Und weiss sie festzuhalten—What chance gathers she very easily scatters. A noble man attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them fast. Goethe.

Sei gefühllos! / Ein leichtbewegtes Herz / Ist ein elend Gut / Auf der wankenden Erde—Do not give way to feeling (lit. be unfeeling). A quickly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. Goethe.

Sei gut, und lass von dir die Menschen Böses sagen; / Wer eigne Schuld nicht trägt, kann leichter fremde tragen—Be good, and let men say ill of thee; he who has no sin to bear of his own can more easily bear that of others. Rückert.

Sei im Besitze, und du wohnst im Recht, / 25 Und heilig wird's die Menge dir bewahren—Be in possession and thou hast the right, and the many will preserve it for thee as sacred. Schiller.

Sei was du sein willst—Be what you would be. Ger. Pr.

Sein Glaube ist so gross, dass, wenn er fällt, / Glaubt er: gefallen sei die ganze Welt—His faith is so great that if it falls, he believes the whole world has fallen. Bodenstedt.

Sei hochbeseligt oder leide! / Das Herz bedarf ein zweites Herz. / Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude, / Geteilter Schmerz ist halber Schmerz.—Be joyful or sorrowful, the heart needs a second heart. Joy shared is joy doubled; pain shared is pain divided. Rückert.

Selbst erfinden ist schön; doch glücklich von andern Gefundnes, / Fröhlich erkannt und geschätzt, nennst du das weniger dein?—It is glorious to find out one's self, but call you that less yours which has been happily found out by others, and is with joy recognised and valued by you? Goethe.

Selbst gethan ist halb gethan—What you do 30 yourself is half done. Ger. Pr.

Seldom contented, often in the wrong, / Hard to be pleased at all, and never long. Dryden.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. Bp. Hall.

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, / As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit, / That could be moved to smile at anything. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

Seldom, in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. Goethe.

Seldom is a life wholly wrecked but the cause 35 lies in some internal mal-arrangement, some want less of good fortune than of good guidance. Carlyle.

Self-complacence over the concealed destroys its concealment. Goethe.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness or a realisation of our duty and privilege as God's children. Phillips Brooks.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Johnson.

Self-deception is one of the most deadly of all dangers. Saying.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, 40 and the loftiest kind thereof comes only of a religious stock. Theo. Parker.

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end. Jane Taylor.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. Bovee.

Self-interest, that leprosy of the age, attacks us from infancy, and we are startled to observe little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect. Mme. de Girardin.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Goethe.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our 5 virtues. Goethe.

Self-love is a balloon inflated with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it. Voltaire.

Self-love is not so vile a sin / As self-neglecting. Henry V., ii. 4.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation. Voltaire.

Self-love may be, and as a fact often is, the first impulse that drives a man to seek to become morally and religiously better. J. C. Sharp.

Self loves itself best. Pr. 10

Self-murder! name it not; our island's shame! Blair.

Self-respect, the corner-stone of all virtue. Sir John Herschel.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, / These three alone lead life to sovereign power. / Yet not for power (power of herself / Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, / Acting the law we live by without fear; / And, because right is right, to follow right, / Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. Tennyson.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. Emerson.

Self-trust is the first secret of success. Emerson. 15

Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. Cecil.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. Ward Beecher.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. Mme. Roland.

Selig der, den er im Siegesglanze findet—Happy he whom he (Death) finds in battle's splendour. Goethe.

Selig wer sich vor der Welt, / Ohne Hass 20 verschliesst, / Einen Freund am Busen hält / Und mit dem geniesst—Happy he who without hatred shuts himself off from the world, holds a friend to his bosom, and enjoys life with him. Goethe.

Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor, and follow me. Jesus.

Semel insanivimus omnes—We have all been at some time mad.

Semel malus, semper præsumitur esse malus—Once bad is to be presumed always bad. L.

Semen est sanguis Christianorum—The blood of us Christians is seed. Tertullian.

Semper ad eventum festinat—He always hastens 25 to the goal, or issue. M.

Semper Augustus—Always an enlarger of the empire. Symmachus.

Semper avarus eget; certum voto pete finem—The avaricious man is ever in want; let your desire aim at a fixed limit. Hor.

Semper bonus homo tiro—A good man is always green. Mart.

Semper eadem—Always the same. M.

Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Æmiliane—If 30 you are poor, Emilian, you will always be poor. Mart.

Semper fidelis—Always faithful. M.

Semper habet lites alternaque jurgia lectus, / In quo nupta jacet; minimum dormitur in illo—The bed in which a wife lies is always the scene of quarrels and mutual recriminations; there is very little chance of sleep there. Juv.

Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudesque manebunt—Thy honour, thy renown, and thy praises shall live for ever. Virg.

Semper idem—Always the same. M.

Semper inops, quicunque cupit—He who desires 35 more is always poor. Claud.

Semper paratus—Always ready. M.

Semper tibi pendeat hamus; / Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit—Have your hook always baited; in the pool where you least think it there will be a fish. Ovid.

Sempre il mal non vien per nuocere—Misfortune does not always result in harm. It. Pr.

Send a fool to France, and he'll come a fool back. Sc. Pr.

Send a fool to the market, and a fool he'll 40 return. Pr.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him. Pr.

Send your charity abroad wrapt in blankets. Pr.

Send your son to Ayr; if he did weel here, he'll do weel there. Sc. Pr.

Senilis stultitia, quæ deliratio appellari solet, senum levium est, non omnium—The foolishness of old age, which is termed dotage, does not characterise all who are old, but only those who are frivolous. Cic.

Seniores priores—The elder men first. 45

Sense can support herself handsomely, in most countries, for some eighteenpence a day; but for fantasy planets and solar systems will not suffice. Carlyle.

Sense hides shame. Gael. Pr.

Sense, shortness, and salt are the ingredients of a good proverb. Howell.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. Colton.

Sensitive ears are good signs of health in 50 girls as in horses. Jean Paul.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of ourselves. Bovee.

Sensuality is the grave of the soul. Channing.

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memory. Diderot.

Sentiment has a kind of divine alchemy, rendering grief itself the source of tenderest thoughts and far-reaching desires, which the sufferer cherishes as sacred treasures. Talfourd.

Sentiment is intellectualised emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. Lowell.

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. Mme. Delazy.

Sentimental literature, concerned with the analysis and description of emotion, headed by the poetry of Byron, is altogether of lower rank than the literature which merely describes what it saw. Ruskin.

Sentimentalism is that state in which a man 5 speaks deep and true, not because he feels things strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and touching and fine to say them—things that he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel. F. W. Robertson.

Senza Cerere e Bacco, Venere e di ghiaccio—Without bread and wine love is cold (lit. without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus is of ice). It. Pr.

Septem convivium, novem convitium—Seven is a banquet, nine a brawl. Pr.

Septem horas dormisse sat est juvenique, senique—Seven hours of sleep is enough both for old and young. Pr.

Sepulchri / Mitte supervacuos honores—Discard the superfluous honours at the grave. Hor.

Sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis—And 10 he follows his father with unequal steps. Virg.

Sequor nec inferior—I follow, but am not inferior. M.

Sera in fundo parsimonia—Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. Sen.

Serenity, health, and affluence attend the desire of rising by labour. Goldsmith.

Seriatim—In order; according to rank; in due course.

Series implexa causarum—The complicated 15 series of causes; fate. Sen.

Serit arbores quæ alteri sæculo prosint—He plants trees for the benefit of a future generation. From Statius.

Sermons in stones. As You Like It, ii. 1.

Sero clypeum post vulnera sumo—I am too late in taking my shield after being wounded. Pr.

Sero sapiunt Phryges—The Trojans became wise when too late. Pr.

Sero sed serio—Late, but seriously. M. 20

Sero venientibus ossa—The bones for those who come late. Pr.

Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet—Unless a serpent devour a serpent, it will not become a dragon, i.e., unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. Pr.

Serpentum major concordia; parcit / Cognatis maculis similis fera. Quando leoni / Fortior eripuit vitam leo?—There is greater concord among serpents than among men; a wild beast of a like kind spares kindred spots. When did a stronger lion deprive another of life? Juv.

Serum auxilium post prælium—Help comes too late when the fight is over. Pr.

Serus in cœlum redeas diuque / Lætus intersis 25 populo—May it be long before you return to the sky, and may you long move up and down gladly among your people. Hor. to Augustus.

Serva jugum—Preserve the yoke. M.

Servabo fidem—I will keep faith. M.

Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought / The better fight. Milton.

Servants and houses should be suited to the situation. A gem should not be placed at the feet. The same is to be understood of an able man. Hitopadesa.

Servata fides cineri—Faithful to the memory of 30 my ancestors. M.

Serve the great; stick at no humiliation; grudge no office thou canst render; be the limb of their body, the breath of their mouth; compromise thy egotism. Emerson.

Servetur ad imum / Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet—Let the character be kept up to the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. Hor.

Service is no inheritance. Fr. and It. Pr.

Serviet æternum, quia parvo nescit uti—He will be always a slave, because he knows not how to live upon little. Hor.

Servility and abjectness of humour is implicitly 35 involved in the charge of lying. Government of the Tongue.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. Pr.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on servitude. Sen.

Ses rides sur son front ont gravé ses exploits—His furrows on his forehead testify to his exploits. Corn.

Sesquipedalia verba—Words a cubit long. Hor.

Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to 40 the devil. Pr.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop. Burton.

Set a stout heart to a stey (steep) brae. Sc. Pr.

Set a thief to catch a thief. Pr.

Set it down to thyself as well to create good precedents as to follow them. Bacon.

Set not your loaf in till the oven's hot. Pr. 45

Set out so / As all the day thou mayst hold out to go. George Herbert.

Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. St. Paul.

Setz' dir Perrücken auf von Millionen Locken, / Setz' deinen Fuss auf ellenhohe Socken, / Du bleibst doch immer, was du bist—Clap on thee wigs with curls without number, set thy foot in ell-high socks, thou remainest notwithstanding ever what thou art. Goethe.

Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, / Who living had no roof to shroud his head. Heywood.

Seven Grecian cities vied for Homer dead, / 50 Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Leonidas.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. Sir William Jones.

Seven times tried that judgment is / That did never choose amiss. Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.

Severæ Musa tragœdiæ—The Muse of solemn tragedy. Hor.

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Bacon.

Sewing at once a double thread, / A shroud as 55 well as a shirt. Hood.

Sex horas somno, totidem des legibus æquis: / Quatuor orabis, des epulisque duas. / Quod superest ultra, sacris largire Camenis—Give six hours to sleep, as many to the study of law; four hours you shall pray, and two give to meals: what is over devote to the sacred Muses. Coke.

Sexu fœmina, ingenio vir—In sex a woman, in natural ability a man. Epitaph of Maria Theresa.

Shadow owes its birth to light. Gay.

Shadows fall on brightest hours. Procter.

Shadows to-night / Have struck more terror 5 to the soul of Richard / Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. Rich. III., v. 3.

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, / And look on death itself. Macb., ii. 3.

Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth that beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, have no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. Emerson.

Shakespeare does not look at a thing merely, but into it, through it, so that he constructively comprehends it, can take it asunder and put it together again; the thing melts, as it were, into light under his eye, and anew creates itself before him. Carlyle.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they imagine they are producing themselves. Goethe.

Shakespeare is no sectarian; to all he deals 10 with equity and mercy; because he knows all, and his heart is wide enough for all. In his mind the world is a whole; he figures it as Providence governs it; and to him it is not strange that the sun should be caused to shine on the evil and the good, and the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. Carlyle.

Shakespeare is the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of literature. I know not such power of vision, such faculty of thought in any other man, such calmness of depth; placid joyous strength; all things imaged in that great soul of his so true and clear, as in a tranquil unfathomable sea. A perfectly level mirror, that is to say withal, a man justly related to all things and men, a good man. Carlyle.

Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest. Emerson.

Shakespeare must have seemed a dull man at times, he was so flashingly brilliant at others. Bovee.

Shakespeare never permits a spirit to show itself but to men of the highest intellectual power. Ruskin.

Shakespeare says we are creatures that look 15 before and after; the more surprising that we do not look round a little and see what is passing under our very eyes. Carlyle.

Shakespeare stands alone. His want of erudition was a most happy and productive ignorance; it forced him back upon his own resources, which were exhaustless. Colton.

Shakespeare, the finest human figure, as I apprehend, that Nature has hitherto seen fit to make out of our widely-diffused Teutonic clay. I find no human soul so beautiful, these fifteen hundred known years—our supreme modern European man. Carlyle.

Shakespeare, the sage and seer of the human heart. H. Giles.

Shakespeare was forbidden of heaven to have any plans.... Not for him the founding of institutions, the preaching of doctrines, or the repression of abuses. Neither he, nor the sun, did on any morning that they rose together, receive charge from their Maker concerning such things. They were both of them to shine on the evil and good; both to behold unoffendingly all that was upon the earth, to burn unappalled upon the spears of kings, and undisdaining upon the reeds of the river. Ruskin.

Shakespeare (it is true) wrote perfect historical 20 plays on subjects belonging to the preceding centuries, (but) they are perfect plays just because there is no care about centuries in them, but a life which all men recognise for the human life of all time;... a rogue in the fifteenth century being, at heart, what a rogue is in the nineteenth and was in the twelfth; and an honest or a knightly man being, in like manner, very similar to other such at any other time. Ruskin.

Shall horses run upon the rock? Will one plough there with oxen? Bible.

Shall we receive good at the hands of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil? Bible.

Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving? Atterbury.

Shall workmen just repeat the sin of kings and conquerors? / As the nations cease from battle, shall the classes rouse the fray, / And scatter wanton sorrow for a shilling more a day? Dr. Walter Smith.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances.... 25 Strong men believe in cause and effect. Emerson.

Shallow streams make most din. Pr.

Shallow wits censure everything that is beyond their depth. Pr.

"Shalls" and "wills." Never trust a Scotch man or woman who does not come to grief among them. J. M. Barrie.

Shame is a feeling of profanation. Novalis.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks 30 in the web, it is wholly imperfect. Bulwer Lytton.

Shame is worse than death. Russ. Pr.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. Sen.

Shame of poverty is almost as bad as pride of wealth. Pr.

Shapes that come not at an earthly call / Will not depart when mortal voices bid. Wordsworth.

Sharpness cuts slight things best; solid, nothing 35 cuts through but weight and strength; the same in the use of intellectuals. Sir W. Temple.

She bears a duke's revenues on her back. 2 Hen. VI., i. 3.

She (Wisdom) is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. Bible.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband. Hitopadesa.

She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; she is a woman, therefore may be won. Tit. Andron., ii. 1.

She is a woman who can command herself. Hitopadesa.

She is not worthy to be loved that hath not 5 some feeling of her own worthiness. Sir P. Sidney.

She lived unknown, and few could know / When Lucy ceased to be; / But she is in her grave, and oh / The difference to me! Wordsworth.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Bible.

She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth. Swift.

She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them. / This only is the witchcraft I have used. Othello, i. 3.

She never told her love, / But let concealment, 10 like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek. Twelfth Night, ii. 4.

She (i.e., Nature) only knows / How justly to proportion to the fault the punishment it merits. Shelley.

She pined in thought, / And with a green and yellow melancholy. / She sat like patience on a monument, / Smiling at grief. Twelfth Night, ii. 4.

She should be humble who would please, / And she must suffer who can love. Prior.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living with her; she would infect to the north star. Much Ado, ii. 1.

She that is ashamed to eat at table eats in 15 private. Pr.

She that is born handsome is born married. Pr.

She that rails ye into trembling / Only shows her fine dissembling; / But the fawner to abuse ye, / Thinks ye fools, and so will use ye. Dufrey.

She that takes gifts herself she sells, / And she that gives them does nothing else. Pr.

She that will not when she may, / When she will, she shall have nay. Murphy.

She watches him as a cat would watch a 20 mouse. Swift.

She wept to feel her life so desolate, / And wept still more because the world had made it / So desolate: yet was the world her all; / She loathed it, but she knew it was her all. Dr. Walter Smith.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. Goldsmith.

She's all my fancy painted her; / She's lovely, she's divine. William Mee.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd; / She's a woman, and therefore to be won. 1 Hen. VI., v. 3.

Sheathe thy impatience; throw cold water on 25 thy choler. Merry Wives, ii. 3.

Short allowance of victual, and plenty of nothing but Gospel! Longfellow.

Short boughs, long vintage. Pr.

Short lived is all rule but the rule of God. Gael. Pr.

Short-lived wits do wither as they grow. Love's L. Lost, ii. 1.

Short prayers reach heaven. Pr. 30

Short reckonings make long friends. Pr.

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip / Their wings in tears and skim away. Tennyson.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And never brought to mind? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And days o' lang syne? Burns.

Should envious tongues some malice frame, / To soil and tarnish your good name, / Live it down. Dr. Henry Rink.

Should not the ruler have regard to the voice 35 of the people? Schiller.

Should one suffer what is intolerable? Schiller.

Show me one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry; or rather, I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all. Eliz. S. Shephard.

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone, and I will show you one who will never be admitted. Feltham.

Show me the man you honour; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be, and would thank the gods, with your whole soul, for being if you could. Carlyle.

"Show some pity?" "I show it most of all 40 when I show justice." Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

Show the dullest clodpole, show the haughtiest featherhead, that a soul higher than himself is actually here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship. Carlyle.

Shrine of the mighty! can it be / That this is all remains of thee? Byron.

Shrouded in baleful vapours, the genius of Burns was never seen in clear, azure splendour, enlightening the world; but some beams from it did, by fits, pierce through; and tinted those clouds with rainbow and orient colours into a glory and stern grandeur which men silently gazed on with wonder and tears. Carlyle.

Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse: clear minds, clean bodies, need no Sôma juice. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against 45 painted distress. Lamb:.

Si ad naturam vivas, nunquam eris pauper; si ad opinionem, nunquam dives—If you live according to the dictates of Nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of men, you never will be rich. Sen.

Si antiquitatem spectes, est vetustissima; si dignitatem, est honoratissima; si jurisdictionem, est capacissima—If you consider its antiquity, it is most ancient; if its dignity, it is most honourable; if its jurisdiction, it is most extensive. Coke, of the English House of Commons.

Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi: / Hospitis adventus, præsens sitis, atque futura, / Aut vini bonitas, aut quælibet altera causa—If I remember right, there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, thirst to come, the goodness of the wine, or any other excuse you choose. Père Sermond.

Si cadere necesse est, occurrendum discrimini—If we must fall, let us manfully face the danger. Tac.

Si caput dolet omnia, membra languent—If the head aches, all the members of the body become languid. Pr.

Si ce n'est pas là Dieu, c'est du moins son cousin-german—If that is not God, it is at least His cousin-german. Mirabeau, of the rising sun as he lay on his death-bed.

Si ce n'est toi, c'est ton frère—If you did 5 not do it, it was your brother. La Fontaine.

Si claudo cohabites, subclaudicare disces—If you live with a lame man you will learn to limp. Pr.

Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer—If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire.

Si fecisti, nega; or nega, quod fecisti—If you did it, deny it. An old Jesuit maxim.

Si foret in terris, rideret Democritus—If Democritus were on earth now, he would laugh. Hor.

Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; / Si fortuna 10 tonat, caveto mergi—If fortune favours you, be not lifted up; if she fulminates, be not cast down. Auson.

Si fractus illabatur orbis, / Impavidum ferient ruinæ—If the world should fall in wreck about him, the ruins would crush him undaunted. Hor. of the upright man.

Si genus humanum, et mortalia temnitis arma; / At sperate Deos memores fandi atque nefandi—If you despise the human race and mortal arms, yet expect that the gods will not be forgetful of right and wrong. Virg.

Si gravis brevis, si longus levis—If severe, short; if long, light. Pr.

Si haces lo que estuviere de tu parte, / Pide al Cielo favor: ha de ayudarte—Hast thou done what was thy duty, trust Providence; He leaves thee not. Samaniego.

Si j'avais la main pleine de vérités, je me garderais 15 bien de l'ouvrir—If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it. Fontenelle.

Si j'avais le malheur d'être né prince—If I had had the misfortune of being born a prince. Rousseau, in the commencement of a letter to the Duke of Würtemberg, who had asked his advice about the education of his son.

Si je puis—If I can. M.

Si jeunesse savait! si vieillesse pouvait!—If youth knew; if age could! Pr.

Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube—If you sit in judgment, investigate; if you possess supreme power, sit in command. Sen.

Si l'adversité te trouve toujours sur tes 20 pieds, la prospérité ne te fait pas aller plus vite—If adversity finds you always on foot, prosperity will not make you go faster. Fr. Pr.

Si la vie est misérable, elle est pénible à supporter; si elle est heureuse, il est horrible de la perdre. L'un revient à l'autre—If our life is unhappy, it is painful to bear, and if it is happy, it is horrible to lose it. Thus, the one is pretty equal to the other. La Bruyère.

Si leonina pellis non satis est, assuenda vulpina—If the lion's skin is not enough, we must sew on the fox's. Pr.

Si monumentum requiris, circumspice—If you seek his monument, look around. Inscription on St. Paul's, London, of Sir Christopher Wren.

Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum—If nature denies the power, indignation makes verses. Juv.

Si non errasset, fecerat ille minus—If he had 25 not committed an error, his glory would have been less. Mart.

Si nous n'avions point de défauts, nous ne prendrions pas tant de plaisir à en remarquer dans les autres—If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those of other people. La Roche.

Si nous ne nous flattions pas nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire—If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others would not harm us. Fr.

Si parva licet componere magnis—If I may be allowed to compare small things with great. Virg.

Si possis suaviter, si non quocunque modo—Gently if you can; if not, by some means or other.

Si qua voles apte nubere, nube pari—If you 30 wish to marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid.

Si quid novisti rectius istis, / Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum—If you know anything better than these maxims, frankly impart them to me; if not, use these like me. Hor.

Si quis—If any one, i.e., has objections to offer.

Si, quoties homines peccant, sua fulmina mittat / Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit—If, as oft as men sin, Jove were to hurl his thunderbolts, he would soon be without weapons to hurl. Ovid.

Si sit prudentia—If you are but guided by prudence. M. from Juv.

Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant / Hæc 35 tria; mens hilaris, requies, moderata diæta—If you stand in need of medical advice, let these three things be your physician: a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet. Schola Salern.

Si tibi vis omnia subjicere, te subjice rationi—If you wish to subject everything to yourself, subject yourself first to reason. Sen.

Si trovano più ladri que forche—There are more thieves than gibbets. It. Pr.

Si veut le roi, si veut la loi—So wills the king, so wills the law. Fr. L.

Si vis amari, ama—If you wish to be loved, love. Sen.

Si vis me flere, dolendum est / Primum ipsi tibi—If 40 you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. Hor.

Si vis pacem, para bellum—If you wish for peace, be ready for war.

Sic ait, et dicto citius tumida æquora placat—So speaks the god, and quicker than he speaks he smoothes the swelling seas. Virg.

Sic donec—Thus until. M.

Sic erat in fatis—So stood it in the decrees of fate. Ovid.

Sic fac omnia... tanquam spectet aliquis—Do everything as in the eye of another. Sen.

Sic itur ad astra—This is the way to the stars. Virg.

Sic leve, sic parvum est, animum quod laudis avarum / Subruit ac reficit—So light, so insignificant a thing is that which casts down or revives a soul that is greedy of praise. Hor.

Sic me servavit Apollo—Thus was I served by 5 Apollo. Hor.

Sic omnia fatis / In pejus ruere et retro sublapsa referri—Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde. Virg.

Sic præsentibus utaris voluptatibus, ut futuris non noceas—So enjoy present pleasures as not to mar those to come. Sen.

Sic transit gloria mundi—It is so the glory of the world passes away.

Sic utere tuo ut alienum non lædas—So use what is your own as not to injure what is another's. L.

Sic visum Veneri, cui placet impares / Formas, 10 atque animos sub juga ahenea / Sævo mittere cum joco—Such is the will of Venus, whose pleasure it is in cruel sport to subject to her brazen yoke persons and tempers ill-matched. Hor.

Sich mitzutheilen ist Natur; Mitgetheiltes aufnehmen, wie es gegeben wird, ist Bildung—It is characteristic to Nature to impart itself; to take up what is imparted as it is given is culture. Goethe.

Sich selbst bekämpfen ist der allerschwerste Krieg; / Sich selbst besiegen ist der allerschönste Sieg—To maintain a conflict with one's self is the hardest of all wars; to overcome one's self is the noblest of all victories. Logau.

Sich selbst hat niemand ausgelernt—No man ever yet completed his apprenticeship. Goethe.

Sich über das Höherstehende alles Urtheils zu enthalten, ist eine zu edle Eigenschaft, als das häufig sein könnte—To refrain from all criticism of what ranks above us is too noble a virtue to be of every-day occurrence. W. v. Humboldt.

Sickness is catching; Oh, were favour so, / 15 Yours would I catch, sweet Hernia, ere I go; / My ear would catch your voice, my eye your eye, / My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

Sicut ante—As before.

Sicut columba—As a dove. M.

Sicut lilium—As a lily. M.

Sie glauben mit einander zu streiten, / Und fühlen das Unrecht von beiden Seiten—They think they are quarrelling with one another, and both sides feel they are in the wrong. Goethe.

Sie scheinen mir aus einem edeln Haus, / Sie 20 sehen stolz und zufrieden aus—They appear to me of a noble family; they look proud and contented. Goethe, Frosch in the witches' cellar in "Faust."

Sie sind voll Honig die Blumen; / Aber die Biene nur findet die Süssigkeit aus—The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. Goethe.

Sie streiten um ein Ei, und lassen die Henne fliegen—They dispute about an egg, and let the hens fly away. Ger. Pr.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! / Men were deceivers ever; / One foot in sea and one on shore, / To one thing constant never. Percy.

Sight before hearsay. Dan. Pr.

Sight must be reinforced by insight before 25 souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. Whipple.

Silence and discretion are specially becoming in a woman, and to remain quietly at home. Euripides.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch.

Silence gives (or implies) consent. Pr.

Silence is a friend that will never betray. Confucius.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, 30 and gives us leave to be great and universal. Emerson.

Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras.

Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time. Carlyle.

Silence is more eloquent than words. Carlyle.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Cic.

Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts 35 himself. La Roche.

Silence is the chaste blossom of love. Heine.

Silence is the consummate eloquence of sorrow. W. Winter.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Carlyle.

Silence is the eternal duty of man. He won't get to any real understanding of what is complex, and what is more than any other pertinent to his interests, without maintaining silence. Carlyle.

Silence is the mother of truth. Disraeli. 40

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Much Ado, ii. 1.

Silence is the sanctuary of discretion (Klugheit). It not only conceals secrets but also faults. Zachariä.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Bacon.

Silence is wisdom, when speaking is folly. Pr.

Silence often expresses more powerfully than 45 speech the verdict and judgment of society. Disraeli.

Silence, silence; and be distant, ye profane, with your jargonings and superficial babblements, when a man has anything to do. Carlyle.

Silent leges inter arma—Laws are silent in time of war. Cic.

Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous. Pr.

Silver from the living / Is gold in the giving: / Gold from the dying / Is but silver a-flying. / Gold and silver from the dead / Turn too often into lead. Fuller.

Simel et simul—Once and together.

Simile gaudet simili—Like loves like. Pr.

Similia similibus curantur—Like things are cured by like.

Simpering is but a lay-hypocrisy: / Give it a corner and the clue undoes. George Herbert.

Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery 5 that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. Lowell.

Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire. Goldsmith.

Simplex sigillum veri—Simplicity is the seal of truth. M. of Boerhave.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style: in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Longfellow.

Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. Thomas à Kempis.

Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the last 10 of art. P. J. Bailey.

Simplicity is, of all things, the hardest to be copied. Steele.

Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not. Fénelon.

Sin every day takes out a patent for some new invention. Whipple.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Holmes.

Sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth 15 but a sting in its tail. H. Ballou.

Sin is not a monster to be mused on, but an impotence to be got rid of. Matthew Arnold.

Sin is too dull to see beyond himself. Tennyson.

Sin seen from the thought is a diminution or loss; seen from the conscience or will, it is a pravity or bad. Emerson.

Since every Jack became a gentleman, / There's many a gentle person made a Jack. Rich. III., i. 3.

Since grief but aggravates thy loss, / Grieve 20 not for what is past. Percy.

Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour. Sir T. Browne.

Since the invention of printing no state can now any longer be formed purely, slowly, and by degrees from itself. Jean Paul.

Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honour him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. Goethe.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, / And half our misery from our foibles springs. Hannah More.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for 25 cheesecakes. Cervantes.

Sincere wise speech (even) is but an imperfect corollary, and insignificant outer manifestation of sincere wise thought. Carlyle.

Sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. Carlyle.

Sincerity gives wings to power. (?)

Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being; and the pretence saps the very foundations of character. Lowell.

Sincerity is the face of the soul, as dissimulation 30 is the mask. Daniel Dubay.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion. Kant.

Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think how to be sincere is the way of man. Confucius.

Sincerity is true wisdom. Tillotson.

Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Spurgeon.

Sine amicitia vitam esse nullam—There is no 35 life without friendship. Cic.

Sine Cerere et Baccho, friget Venus—Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus will starve to death, i.e., without sustenance and good cheer, love can't last. Ter.

Sine cortica natare—To swim without bladders.

Sine cura—Without care, i.e., in receipt of a salary without a care or office.

Sine die—Without appointing a day.

Sine invidia—Without envy; from no invidious 40 feeling.

Sine ira et studio—Without aversion and without preference. Tac.

Sine nervis—Without force; weak.

Sine odio—Without hatred.

Sine prole—Without offspring.

Sine qua non—An indispensable condition, lit. 45 without which not.

Sine virtute esse amicitia nullo pacto potest—There cannot possibly be friendship without virtue. Sall.

Singing should enchant. Joubert.

Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes—The years as they pass bereave us first of one thing and then another. Hor.

Singula quid referam? nil non mortale tenemus, / Pectoris exceptis ingeniique bonis—Why go I into details? we have nothing that is not perishable, except what our hearts and our intellects endow us with. Ovid.

Singularity shows something wrong in the 50 mind. Clarissa.

Sink not in spirit: who aimeth at the sky / Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. George Herbert.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard. Ward Beecher.

Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, / while resignation gently slopes the way. Goldsmith.

Sins and debts are aye mair than we think them. Sc. Pr.

Sint ut sunt, aut non sint—Let them be as they 55 are, or not at all.

Sir, a well-placed dash makes half the wit of our writers of modern humour. Goldsmith.

Sir Fine-face, Sir Fair-hands; but see thou to it / That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day / Undo thee not. Tennyson.

Sir, he hath fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.

Sire, je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse—Your Majesty, I had no need of that hypothesis. Laplace's answer to Napoleon, who had asked why in his "Méchanique Céleste" he had made no mention of God.

Sirve a señor, y sabras que es dolor—Serve a great lord, and you will know what sorrow is. Sp. Pr.

Siste, viator—Stop, traveller. 5

Sit in your own place, and no man can make you rise. Pr.

Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus; ut mihi vivam / Quod superest ævi, si quid superesse volunt Di—May I continue to possess what I have now, or even less; so I may live the remainder of my days after my own plan, if the gods will that any should remain. Hor.

Sit piger ad pœnas princeps, ad præmia velox—A prince should be slow to punish, prompt to reward. Ovid.

Sit sine labe decus—Let my honour be without stain. M.

Sit tibi terra levis—May earth lie light upon 10 thee.

Sit tua cura sequi; me duce tutus eris—Be it your care to follow; with me for your guide you will be safe. Ovid.

Sit venia verbis—Pardon my words.

Sive pium vis hoc, sive hoc muliebre vocari; / Confiteor misero molle cor esse mihi—Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish, I confess that to my misfortune it is soft. Ovid.

Six feet of earth make all men equal. Pr.

Six hours to sleep allot: to law be six addressed; 15 / Pray four: feast two: the Muses claim the rest. On the fly-leaf of an old lawbook from Coke. See Sex horas, &c.

[Greek: skias onar anthrôpoi]—Men are the dream of a shadow. Pindar.

Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus.

Skill is stronger than strength. Pr.

Skill is the united force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation on manual labour. Ruskin.

Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes 20 by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. Emerson.

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. Ruskin.

Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, / Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on. George Herbert.

Slander and detraction can have no influence, can make no impression, upon the righteous Judge above. None to thy prejudice, but a sad and fatal one to their own. Thomas à Kempis.

Slander expires at a good woman's door. Dan. Pr.

Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, 25 both in the slanderer and the person who listens to it. St. Bernard.

Slander lives upon succession; / For ever housed, where it once gets possession. Com. of Errors, iii. 1.

Slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue / Out-venoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath / Rides on the parting winds, and doth belie / All corners of the world. Cymbeline, iii. 4.

Slander's mark was ever yet the fair; /... A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. Shakespeare.

Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me. Socrates.

Slave or free is settled in heaven for a man. 30 Carlyle.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, / But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. Pope.

Slave to silver's but a slave to smoke. Quarles.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Burke.

Slavery is an inherent inheritance of a large portion of the human race, to whom the more you give of their own free will, the more slaves they will make themselves. Ruskin.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their 35 lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free; / They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Cowper.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, / Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please. Spenser.

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, / Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. Pope's Homer.

Sleep, gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my senses in forgetfulness? 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

Sleep hath its own world, / A boundary between the things misnamed / Death and Existence. Byron.

Sleep is for the inhabitants of planets only; in 40 another time men will sleep and wake continually at once. The great part of our body, of our humanity, yet sleeps a deep sleep. (?)

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. Cervantes.

Sleep is the sole reviver (Labsal) of the afflicted. Platen.

Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock. Schopenhauer.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. Emerson.

Sleep no more, / Macbeth does murder sleep. 45 Macb., ii. 2.

Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, / It is a comforter. Tempest, i. 1.

Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast. Macb., ii. 2.

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. Mid. N.'s Dream, iii. 2.

Sleep, the antechamber of the grave. Jean Paul.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, / Morn of toil, nor night of waking. Scott.

Slight not the smallest loss, whether it be / In love or honour; take account of all: / Shine like the sun in every corner: see / Whether thy stock of credit swell or fall. George Herbert.

Slippery is the flagstone at the great house door. Gael. Pr.

Sloth is the key to poverty. Pr. 5

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright. Ben. Franklin.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. Ben. Franklin.

Sloth never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. Cervantes.

Sloth turneth the edge of wit, study sharpeneth the mind; a thing, be it never so easy, is hard to the idle; a thing, be it never so hard, is easy to wit well employed. John Lily.

Slovenly (a) and negligent manner of writing 10 is a disobliging mark of want of respect. Blair.

Slow and steady wins the race. Lloyd.

Slow fire makes sweet malt. Pr.

Slow-footed counsel is most sure to gain; / Rashness still brings repentance in her train. Lucian.

Slow help is no help. Pr.

Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. Johnson. 15

Slow to resolve, but in performance quick. Dryden.

Slowly and sadly we laid him down, / From the field of his fame fresh and gory: / We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, / But we left him alone with his glory. Wolfe.

Sma' fish are better than nane. Sc. Pr.

Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast. Com. of Errors, iii. 1.

Small curs are not regarded when they grin; / 20 But great men tremble when the lion roars. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1.

Small curses upon great occasions are but so much waste of our strength and soul's health to no manner of purpose; they are like sparrow-shot fired against a bastion. Sterne.

Small debts are like small shot—they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound. Great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but of little danger. Johnson.

Small draughts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger bring back to God. Bacon.

Small faults indulged let in greater. Pr.

Small have continued plodders ever won / Save 25 bare authority from others' books. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace. Rich. III., ii. 4.

Small is it that thou canst trample the earth with its injuries under thy foot, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the earth while it injures thee, and even because it injures thee; for this a Greater than Zeno was needed, and he too was sent. Carlyle.

Small Latin and less Greek. Ben Jonson of Shakespeare's knowledge.

Small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence is what our county conventions often exhibit. Emerson.

Small profits and quick returns. Pr. 30

Small rain lays great dust. Pr.

Small service is true service while it lasts. / Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: / The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, / Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. Wordsworth, to a child.

Small thanks to the man for keeping his hands clean who would not touch the work but with gloves on. Carlyle.

Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by circumstances, come to seem great, smallest of phenomena connected with them are treated as important, and must be sedulously scanned, and commented on with loud emphasis. Carlyle.

Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon 35 says, "'Tis nothing but a huge cockpit." Sterne.

Smile (Fortune), and we smile, the lords of many lands; / Frown, and we smile, the lords of our own hands; / For man is man and master of his fate. Tennyson.

Smiles are the language of love. Hare.

Smiles form the channel of a future tear. Byron.

Smiles from reason flow, / To brute denied, and are of love the food. Milton.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is 40 deep; / And in his simple show he harbours treason. / The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. 2 Henry VI., iii. 1.

Smooth waters run deep. Pr.

Smooth words make smooth ways. Pr.

Smuler ere og Bröd—Even crumbs are bread. Dan. Pr.

Snarl if you please, but you shall snarl without. Dryden.

Snatch from the ashes of your sires / The 45 embers of their former fires; / And he who in the strife expires / Will add to theirs a name of fear / That tyranny shall quake to hear, / And leave his sons a hope, a fame, / They too would rather die than shame. Byron.

So behave that the odour of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. Thoreau.

So careful of the type she seems, / So careless of the single life. Tennyson.

So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,—/ The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. Gay.

So dawning day has brought relief—/ Fareweel our night o' sorrow. Burns.

So dress and so conduct yourself that persons 50 who have been in your company will not recollect what you had on. Rev. John Newton.

So far as a man thinks he is free. Emerson.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. Johnson.

So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is high-fantastical. Twelfth Night, i. 1.

So gieb mir auch die Zeiten wieder, / Da ich noch selbst im Werden war—Then give me back the time when I myself was still a-growing. Goethe.

So, here hath been dawning / Another blue day; / Think wilt thou let it / Slip useless away. / Out of Eternity / This new day is born; / Into Eternity / At night doth return. / Behold it aforetime / No eye ever did: / So soon it for ever / From all eyes is hid. / Here hath been dawning, &c. Carlyle on To-day.

So I do my part to others, let them think of me what they will or can.... If I should regard such things, it were in another's power to defeat my charity, and evil should be stronger than good. But difficulties are so far from cooling Christians that they whet them. George Herbert.

So lang man lebt, sei man lebendig—So long 5 as you live, be living. Goethe.

So live with men, as if God saw you; so speak to God, as if men heard you. Sen.

So lonely 'twas, that God himself / Scarce seeméd there to be. Coleridge.

So long as a man is capable of self-renewal he is a living being. Amiel.

So long as any Ideal (any soul of truth) does, in never so confused a manner, exist and work within the Actual, it is a tolerable business. Not so when the Ideal has wholly departed, and the Actual owns to no soul of truth any longer. Carlyle.

So long as the "Holy Place" in their souls 10 is left in possession of powerless opinions, men are practically without God in this world. Froude.

So long as you live and work, you will not escape being misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once for all. Be silent. Goethe.

So magnificent a thing is Will incarnated in a creature of like fashion with ourselves, that we run to witness all manifestations thereof. Carlyle.

So many servants, so many enemies. Pr.

So many slaves, so many enemies. Pr.

So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him. 15 Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

So much in the world depends upon getting what we want. Prosperity is to the human heart like a sunny south wall to a peach. Holme Lee.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. Emerson.

So much to do, / So little done, such things to be. Tennyson.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, / So near is God to man, / When Duty whispers low, "Thou must," / The youth replies, "I can!" Emerson.

So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der 20 Zeit / Und wirke der Gottheit lebendiges Kleid—'Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, / And weave for God the garment thou seest him by (lit. the living garment of the Deity). Goethe.

So soon as one's heart is tender it is weak. When it is beating so warmly against the breast, and the throat is, as it were, tied tightly, and one strives to press the tears from one's eyes and feels an incomprehensible joy as they begin to flow, then we are so weak that we are fettered by chains of flowers, not because they have become strong through any magic chain, but because we tremble lest we should tear them asunder. Goethe.

So soon as people try honestly to see all they can of anything, they come to a point where a noble dimness begins. They see more than others; but the consequence of their seeing more is, that they feel they cannot see at all; and the more intense their perception, the more the crowd of things which they partly see will multiply upon them. Ruskin.

So soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. Renan.

So spiritual (geistig) is our whole daily life; all that we do springs out of mystery, spirit, invisible force; only like a little cloud-image, or Armida's palace, air-built, does the actual body itself forth from the great mystic deep. Carlyle.

So stirbt ein Held, anbetungsvoll—So dies a 25 hero to be worshipped. Schiller.

So study evermore is overshot; / While it doth study to have what it would, / It doth forget to do the thing it should; / And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, / 'Tis won as towns with fire,—so won, so lost. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, / I thought that she bade me return. Shenstone.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Bible.

So thou be above it, make the world serve thy purpose, but do not thou serve it. Goethe.

So thou be good, slander doth but approve / 30 Thy worth the greater. Shakespeare.

So to living or dead let the solemn bell call; / Sleeping or waking, time passes with all. Dr. Walter Smith.

So turns the faithful needle to the pole, / Though mountains rise between and oceans roll. Darwin.

So we grew together, / Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, / But yet a union in partition; / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. / So with two seeming bodies, but one heart. Mid. N.'s. Dream, iii. 2.

So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long. Rich. III., iii. 1.

So wonderful is human nature, and its varied 35 ties / Are so involved and complicate, that none / May hope to keep his inward spirit pure, / And walk without perplexity through life. Goethe.

So work the honey bees; / Creatures that, by a rule in Nature, teach / The art of order to a peopled kingdom. Henry V., i. 2.

Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. Fuller.

Sobald du dir vertraust, sobald weisst du zu leben—So soon as you feel confidence in yourself, you know the art of life. Goethe, Mephisto in "Faust."

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect is the foundation of all true sociality. Thoreau.

Social intercourse makes us the more able to bear with ourselves and others. Goethe.

Social order without liberty makes of man only a product; liberty makes him the citizen of a better world. Schiller.

Societatis vinculum est ratio et oratio—Reason and speech are the bond of society. Cic.

Society always consists, in greatest part, of 5 young and foolish persons. Emerson.

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative. Emerson.

Society develops wit, but contemplation alone forms genius. Mme. de Staël.

Society does not in any age prevent a man from being what he can be. Carlyle.

Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order. Emerson.

Society does not love its unmaskers. Emerson. 10

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Emerson.

Society has always a destructive influence upon an artist:—by its sympathy with his meanest powers; secondly, by its chilling want of understanding of his greatest; and, thirdly, by its vain occupation of his time and thoughts. Ruskin.

Society has always under one or the other figure two authentic revelations, of a God and of a devil. Carlyle.

Society has only one law, and that is custom. Hamerton.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, 15 which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Bulwer Lytton.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. Emerson.

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavours to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or calumny. Victor Hugo.

Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places. Emerson.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.... Its unity is only phenomenal. Emerson.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, 20 and not upon the deepest realities. Hamerton.

Society is barbarous, until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs. Emerson.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Chamfort.

Society is divisible into two classes: shearers and shorn. Talleyrand.

Society is ever under the imperious necessity of moving onward in legal forms, nor can such forms be evaded without the most serious disasters forthwith ensuing. Draper.

Society is founded upon cloth. Carlyle. 25

Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly summon others to serve them. They contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained. Emerson.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons, who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach. Emerson.

Society is like the echoing hills; it gives back to the speaker his words, groan for groan, song for song. Dr. David Thomas.

Society is no comfort to one not sociable. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

Society is servile from want of will, and therefore 30 the world wants saviours and religions. Emerson.

Society is the atmosphere of souls, and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or hurtful. Bp. Hall.

Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters the inventions. C. J. Weber.

Society is the standing wonder of our existence; a true region of the supernatural; as it were, a second all-embracing life, wherein our first individual life becomes doubly and trebly alive, and whatever of infinitude was in us bodes itself forth, and becomes visible and active. Carlyle.

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates the laws. Solon.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science. 35 Amiel.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. Amiel.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional. Emerson.

Society wishes to be amused. I do not wish to be amused. I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred; the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Emerson.

Socius fidelis anchora tuta est—A faithful companion is a sure anchor. M.

Socrates quidem quum rogaretur cujatem se 40 esse diceret, Mundanum, inquit. Totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur—When Socrates was asked of what country he professed to be a citizen, he answered, "Of the world;" for he considered himself an inhabitant and citizen of the whole world. Cic.

Soft-heartedness, in times like these, / Shows softness in the upper storey. Lowell.

Soft is the music that would charm for ever; / The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. Wordsworth.

Soft, or fair, words butter no parsnips. Pr.

Soft pity enters at an iron gate. Shakespeare.

Soft words win hard hearts. Pr. 45

"Softly! softly!" caught the monkey. Negro Pr.

Sogno d'infermi—A sick man's dream. Petrarch.

Soi-disant—Self-styled. Fr.

Sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras—The setting sun doubles the increasing shadows. Virg.

Sol occubuit; nox nulla secuta est—The sun is set; no night has followed.

Sola Deo salus—Safety is from God alone. M.

Sola juvat virtus—Virtue alone assists. M.

Sola nobilitas virtus—Virtue is the only nobility. M.

Sola salus servire Deo—The only safety is in 5 serving God.

Sola virtus invicta—Virtue alone is invincible. M.

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris—It is some comfort to the wretched to have others to share in their woe.

Soldats! si les cornettes vous manquent, vous trouverez toujours mon panache blanc au chemin de l'honneur et de la gloire—Soldiers! if you don't hear the bugle-call, you will always see my white plume in the path of honour and glory! Henry IV. at Ivry.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. Lord Burleigh.

Soldiers (there are) of the ploughshare as well 10 as of the sword. Ruskin.

Soldiers! what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle, and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts, and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries. Those who love freedom and their country may follow me! Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers. (That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. Kossuth.)

"Solem præ jaculorum multitudine et sagittarum non videbis." "In umbra igitur pugnabimus"—"You will not see the sun for the clouds of javelins and arrows." "We shall fight in the shade then." Cic. The Persian to Leonidas at Thermopylæ, and Leonidas' answer.

Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?—Who dares call the sun a liar? Virg.

Soli Deo gloria—To God alone be glory. M.

Soli Deo honor et gloria—To God alone be 15 honour and glory. M.

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

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good. (?)

Solitude is the home of the strong; silence, their prayer. Ravignan.

Solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return. Milton.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings that will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who would inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily time-worn yoke of their opinions. Emerson.

Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant—They 30 make a solitude, and call it peace.

Sollen dich die Dohlen nicht umschrein, / Musst du nicht Knopf auf dem Kirchthurm sein—If jackdaws are not to scream around you, you must not be a ball on the church spire. Goethe.

Sollicitæ mentes speque metuque pavent—Minds that are ill at ease are agitated both with hope and fear. Ovid.

Sollicitant alii remis freta cæca, ruuntque / In ferrum: penetrant aulas, et limina regum—Some disturb unknown seas with oars, some rush upon the sword; some push their way into courts and the portals of kings. Virg.

Solo cedit, quicquid solo plantatur—Whatever is planted in the soil goes with it. L.

Solo Deo salus—Salvation from God alone. 35 M.

Solo e pensoso—Alone and pensive. Petrarch.

Solvit ad diem—He paid to the day. L.

Solvitur ambulando—The problem is solved by walking, i.e., the theoretical puzzle by a practical test.

Solvuntur risu tabulæ—The case is dismissed amid laughter. Hor.

[Greek: sômata polla trephein, kai dômata poll' 40 anegeirein / Atrapos eis peniên estin etoimotatê]—To feed many mouths and build many houses is the directest road to poverty. Gr.

Some are atheists only in fair weather. (?)

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night, ii. 5.

Some are cursed with the fulness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them? Colton.

Some are so intent upon acquiring the superfluities of life that they sacrifice its necessaries in this foolish pursuit. Goldsmith.

Some books are drenched sands, on which a 45 great soul's wealth lies in heaps, like a wrecked argosy. Alex. Smith.

Some books are edifices to stand as they are built; some are hewn stones ready to form a part of future edifices; some are quarries from which stones are to be split for shaping and after use. Holmes.

Some books are lees frae end to end, / And some big lees were never penn'd; / E'en ministers they hae been kenn'd, / In holy rapture, / A rousing whid at times to vend, / And nail't wi' Scripture. Burns.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Bacon.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Much Ado About Nothing, iv. 1.

Some dire misfortune to portend, / No enemy can match a friend. Swift.

Some drink because they're wet, and some 5 because they're dry. Saying.

Some evils are cured by contempt. Pr.

Some falls are means the happier to rise. Shakespeare.

Some faults are so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Goldsmith.

Some folk's tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their inside. George Eliot.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, / 10 And think they grow immortal as they quote. Young.

Some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction. Ecclus.

Some glances of real beauty may be seen in the faces of those who dwell in true meekness. Thoreau.

Some grief shows much of love, / But much of grief shows still more want of wit. Rom. and Jul., iii. 5.

Some hae meat that canna eat, / And some would eat that want it; / But we hae meat and we can eat, / Sae let the Lord be thankit. Burns.

Some have been thought brave because they 15 were afraid to run away. Pr.

Some men are born anvils, some are born hammers. (?)

Some men are like nails, easily drawn; others are like rivets, not drawable at all. John Burroughs.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise. Pr.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument going on, they think nothing is doing. Emerson.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere. 20 S. C. Hall.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. Pr.

Some men have just imagination enough to spoil their judgment. (?)

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress. Abd-el-Kader.

Some men weave their sophistry till their own reason is entangled. Johnson.

Some men will believe nothing but what they 25 can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend. St. Evermond.

Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgement; and some men they follow after. St Paul.

Some modern zealots appear to have no better knowledge of truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting noses. Swift.

Some must be great. Cowper.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble. Goethe.

Some of the most famous books are least 30 worth reading. Their fame was due to their doing something that needed in their day to be done. The work done, the virtue of the book expires. John Morley.

Some of your griefs you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived; / But what torments of pain you endured / From evils that never arrived! Emerson, from the French.

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples. Pope.

Some people are all quality; you would think they were made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good-nature or good manners. L'Estrange.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half way to meet it. D. Jerrold.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; 35 very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. Hare.

Some people obtain fame, and others deserve it. Lessing.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing why, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools. Sterne.

Some people will never learn anything, because they understand everything too soon. (?)

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them. B. R. Haydon.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for 40 their God, are content to make a god of their religion. Helps.

Some persons take reproof good-humouredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning. Hare.

Some philosophers seek to exalt man by display of his greatness, others to debase him by pointing to his miseries. Pascal.

Some prayers, indeed, have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with richer lading at last. Gurnall.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. L'Estrange.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall; / 45 Some run from brakes of vice and answer none, / And some condemnéd for a fault alone. Meas. for Measure., ii. 1.

Some slaves are scourged to their work by whips, others by restlessness and ambition. Ruskin.

Some straw, a room, water, and in the fourth place, gentle words. These things are never to be refused in good men's houses. Hitopadesa.

Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Emerson.

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more. Leigh Hunt.

Some that speak no ill of any do no good to 5 any. Pr.

Some there be that shadows kiss, / Such have but a shadow's bliss. Mer. of Venice, ii. 9.

Some to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse, / Want as much more to turn it to its use. Pope.

Some treasures are heavy with human tears, as an ill-stored harvest with untimely rain; and some gold is brighter in sunshine than in substance. Ruskin.

Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen / That led calm Henry. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6.

Some village Hampden, that with dauntless 10 breast / The little tyrant of his fields withstood, / Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, / Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Gray.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and some in prosperity. Addison.

Some wee short hours ayont the twal. Burns.

Some work in the morning may trimly be done, / That all the day after may hardly be won. Tusser.

Some would be thought to do great things who are but tools and instruments, like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ when he only blew the bellows. (?)

Something attempted, something done, / Has 15 earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Ham., i. 4.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised. Emerson.

Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile. They only grin. Bovee.

Sometimes from her eyes / I did receive fair 20 speechless messages. Mer. of Venice, i. 1.

Sometimes ideas are made flesh; they breathe upon us with warm breath; they touch us with soft responsive hands; they look upon us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing tones. George Eliot.

Sometimes the half is better than the whole, / And sometimes worse than none; the dubious soul / Suspects the secret there in what is hid, / And holds the rest but trash. Dr. Walter Smith.

Sometimes / 'Tis well to be bereft of promised good, / That we may lift the soul, and contemplate / With lively joy the joys we cannot share. Coleridge.

Somnus agrestium / Lenis virorum non humiles domos / Fastidit, umbrosamque ripam—The gentle sleep of rustic men disdains not humble dwellings and the shady bank. Hor.

Somnus est imago mortis—Sleep is the image of 25 death. Cic.

Son genre n'est pas le plus grand, mais elle est la plus grande dans son genre—Its kind is not the greatest, but it is the greatest of its kind. (?).

Sonder Falsch wie die Tauben! und ihr beleidiget keinen; / Aber klug wie die Schlangen und euch beleidiget keiner—Innocent as doves, you will harm no one; but wise as serpents, no one will harm you. Haug.

Song is the heroic of speech. Carlyle,

Song is the tone of feeling. Hare.

Songs may exist unsung, but voices exist 30 only when they sound. Landor.

Soon enough, if well enough. Pr.

Soon hot, soon cold. Pr.

Soon or late the strong need the help of the weak. Fr. Pr.

Soon ripe, soon rotten. Pr.

Sooner earth / Might go round heaven, and 35 the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love. Tennyson.

Sooner or later the truth comes to light. Dut. Pr.

Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain, / Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes, / And thrice he slew the slain. Dryden.

[Greek: sophên de misô; mê gar en g' emois domois / Eiê phronousa pleion ê gynaika chrên]—I hate a learned woman. Let no woman in my house know more than a woman should. Eurip.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful of the evils that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart and eradicates every virtue. Fénelon.

Sorex suo perit indicio—The mouse perishes by 40 betraying himself. Pr.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, / Makes the night morning and the noontide night. Rich. III.

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, / Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. Titus Andron., ii. 5.

Sorrow has ever produced more melody than mirth. C. Fitzhugh.

Sorrow has not been given us for sorrow's sake, but always as a lesson from which we are to learn somewhat, which once learned, it ceases to be sorrow. Carlyle.

Sorrow is always toward ourselves, not 45 heaven; / Showing, we would not spare heaven, as we love it, / But as we stand in fear. Meas. for Meas., ii. 3.

Sorrow is an enemy, but it carries a friend's message within it too. All life is as death; and the tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven, goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all. Carlyle.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Bible.

Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. Pr.

Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life. Byron.

Sorrow is shadow to life, moving where life doth move. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity 5 will cleanse and brighten it. Johnson.

Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, once set on ringing, with his own strength goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. Shakespeare.

Sorrow like this / Draws parted lives in one, and knits anew / The rents which time has made. Lewis Morris.

Sorrow of spirit (like Night among the Greeks) is the mother of gods. Jean Paul.

Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing. Jean Paul.

Sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness / 10 Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. Troil. and Cress., i. 1.

Sorrow will pay no debt. Pr.

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds—in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray. Jean Paul.

Sorrows are often evolved from good fortune. Goethe.

Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Tennyson.

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. 15 R. Pollok.

Sors tua mortalis; non est mortale quod optas—Thy lot is mortal, and thou wishest what no mortal may. Ovid.

Sort thy heart to patience; / These few days' wonder will be quickly worn. 2 Henry VI., ii. 4.

Sotto voce—In an undertone. It.

Souffrir est la première chose qu'il doit apprendre, et celle qu'il aura le plus grand besoin de savoir—To be able to endure is the first lesson which a child ought to learn, and the one which it will have the most need to know. Rousseau.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, 20 with whom revenge is virtue. Young.

Souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur before they can first comprehend the greatness of man. Heine.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence. Goethe.

Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory, they nourish the will. Joubert.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! / To all the sensual world proclaim, / One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without a name. Scott.

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! / 25 Jehovah has triumph'd, His people are free. Moore.

Sound trumpets!—let our bloody colours wave; / And either victory or else a grave. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2.

Soupçon est d'amitié poison—Suspicion is the poison of friendship. Fr. Pr.

Sour woe delights in fellowship, / And needly will be rank'd with other griefs. Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.

Souvent la perfidie retourne sur son auteur—Treachery often recoils on the head of its author. Fr.

Sow good works and you will reap gladness. Pr. 30

Soyez comme l'oiseau, posé pour un instant / Sur des rameaux trop frêles, / Qui sent ployer la branche et qui chante pourtant, / Sachant qu'il a des ailes—Be as the bird perched for an instant on the too frail branch which she feels bending beneath, but sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo.

Soyez ferme—Be firm. M.

Soyons doux, si nous voulons être regrettés. La hauteur du génie et les qualités supérieures ne sont pleurées que des anges—Let us be gentle if we would be regretted. The pride of genius and high talents are lamented only by angels. Chateaubriand.

Space is the statue of God. Joubert.

Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare. Pr. 35

Spare the rod and spoil the child. Pr.

Sparen ist grössere Kunst als erwerben—Saving is a greater art than gaining. Ger. Pr.

Sparing or spending, be thy wisdom seen / In keeping ever to the golden mean. Lucian.

Speak every man truth with his neighbour. St. Paul.

Speak gently!—'tis a little thing, / Dropped 40 in the heart's deep well. Anon.

Speak in such a manner between two enemies, that, should they afterwards become friends, you may not be put to the blush. Saadi.

Speak little and to the purpose. Pr.

Speak little, but speak the truth. Pr.

Speak no evil of a man if you know it not of him for certain, and if you do know it, then ask yourself, "Why do I tell it?" Lavater.

Speak not at all till you have somewhat to 45 speak; and care simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking. Carlyle.

Speak not peace to thyself when beset on every side with numerous and restless enemies. Thomas à Kempis.

Speak o' the deil and he'll appear. Sc. Pr.

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak / Of one who loved not wisely but too well. Othello, v. 2.

Speak that I may see thee. Addison.

Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits 50 help you with unexpected furtherance; all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. Emerson.

Speak the truth and shame the devil. Pr.

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. Bible.

Speak well of the absent whenever you have a suitable opportunity. Judge Hale.

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say nothing. Pr.

Speak when you are spoken to, and come 55 when you are called for. Pr.

Speak your sincerest, think your wisest; there is still a great gulf between you and the fact. Carlyle.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. Ger. Pr.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed. Sir W. Raleigh.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim. Pr.

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ—The 5 ladies come to see, they come also to be seen. Ovid.

Spectemur agendo—Let us be tried by our actions. M.

Spectres exist for those only who wish to see them. Holtei.

Speculation should have free course and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listeth. Carlyle.

Speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it. Carlyle.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his 10 thought. Talleyrand.

Speech is a laggard and a sloth, but the eyes shoot forth an electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation. Horace Smith.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. Rivarol.

Speech is like tapestry unfolded, where the imagery appears distinct; but thoughts, like tapestry in the bale, where the figures are rolled up together. Themistocles, quoted by Bacon.

Speech is morning to the mind; it spreads the beauteous images abroad, which else lie furled or clouded in the soul. Nathaniel Lee.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to 15 convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. Emerson.

Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few. Cato.

Speech is too often, not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling or suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Carlyle.

Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom and well chosen. Bacon.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. Carlyle.

Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune. 20 Pr.

Spem gregis—The hope of the flock. Virg.

Spem pretio non emo—I do not give money for mere hopes. Ter.

Spend not on hopes. George Herbert.

Sperat infestis, metuit secundis / Alteram sortem bene præparatum / Pectus—A heart well prepared in adversity hopes for, and in prosperity fears, a change of fortune. Hor.

Sperate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis—Hope 25 on, and reserve yourselves for prosperous times. Virg.

Speravi—I have hoped. M.

Speravimus ista / Dum fortuna fuit—I hoped that once, while fortune was favourable. Virg.

Spero meliora—I hope for better things. M.

Spes bona dat vires, animum quoque spes bona firmat; / Vivere spe vidi qui moriturus erat—Good hope gives strength, good hope also confirms resolution; him who was on the point of death, I have seen revive by hope.

Spes mea Christus—Christ is my hope. M. 30

Spes mea in Deo—My hope is in God. M.

Spes sibi quisque—Each man must hope in himself alone. Virg.

Spes tutissima cœlis—The safest hope is in heaven. M.

Spesso chi troppo fa, poco fa—Often he who does too much does little. It. Pr.

Spesso d'un gran male nasce un gran bene—Out 35 of a great evil there springs a great good. It. Pr.

Spesso i doni sono danni—Gifts are oftentimes losses. It. Pr.

Spesso la tardità ti toglie l'occasione et la celerità le forze—Tardiness often robs us of opportunity, and too great despatch of our force. Machiavelli.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day) in recreation, for sleep itself is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Fuller.

Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me. I am praying. Port. Prov.

Spinoza was a God-intoxicated man (Gott-getrunkener 40 Mensch). Novalis.

Spirit is the creator. Spirit hath life in itself. And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the Father. Emerson.

Spirit of Nature! / The pure diffusion of thy essence throbs / Alike in every human heart. / Thou aye erectest there / Thy throne of power unappealable; / Thou art the judge beneath whose nod / Man's brief and frail authority / Is powerless as the wind / That passeth idly by. / Thine the tribunal which surpasseth / The show of human justice, / As God surpasseth man. Schelling.

Spirit-power begins in directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. Ruskin.

Spirits are not finely touch'd / But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends / The smallest scruple of her excellence / But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines / Herself the glory of a creditor, / Both thanks and use. Meas. for Meas., i. 1.

Spirits, when they please, / Can either sex 45 assume, or both. Milton.

Spiritual music can only spring from discords set in unison; but for evil there were no good, as victory is only possible by battle. Carlyle.

Spite of all the criticising elves, / Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. Burke.

Spite of cormorant devouring Time, / The endeavour of this present breath may buy / That honour which will bate his scythe's keen edge, / And make us heirs of all eternity. Love's L.'s Lost, i. 1.

Splendida vitia—Splendid vices. Tertullian, of Pagan virtues.

Splendide mendax—Nobly false or disloyal. 50 Hor.

Spolia opima—The richest of the spoil.

Sport is the bloom and glow of perfect health. Emerson.

Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden—Speech is silvern, silence golden. Swiss M.

Sprich nicht von Zeit, sprich nicht von Raum, / Denn Raum und Zeit sind nur ein Traum, / Ein schwerer Traum, den nur vergisst, / Wer durch die Liebe glücklich ist—Speak not of time, speak not of space, for space and time are but a dream, a heavy dream, which he who is happy in love only forgets. Bodenstedt.

Sprich vom Geheimniss nicht geheimnissvoll—Speak not mysteriously of what is a mystery. Goethe.

St. Theresa right well defines the devil as an 5 unfortunate who knows not what it is to love. C. J. Weber.

Stab at thee who will, / No stab the soul can kill. Raleigh.

Stabat mater dolorosa / Juxta crucem lacrymosa / Qua pendebat Filius—She stood a sorrow-stricken mother, weeping by the Cross where her son hung dying.

Stabit quocunque jeceris—It will stand, whichever way you throw it. Legend on the three-legged crest of the Isle of Man.

Stagnation is something more than death, it is corruption also. Simms.

Stain (blemish) not thy innocence by too deep 10 resentment, nor take off from the brightness of thy crown by anger and impatience and eagerness to right thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

Stand fast! to stand or fall, / Free in thine own arbitrament it stands. Milton.

Stand not upon the order of your going, / But go at once. Macb., iii. 4.

"Stand out of the sun." Diogenes to Alexander the Great, and which made Alexander remark, "If I were not Alexander I would be Diogenes."

Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Bible.

Stand up bravely to afflictions, and quit thyself 15 like a man. Thomas à Kempis.

Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein. Bible.

Standing on what too long we bore / With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, / We may discern—unseen before—/ A path to higher destinies. Longfellow.

Stant cætera tigno—The rest stand on a beam. M.

Stare super vias antiquas—To stand upon the old ways.

Stark est des Menschen Arm, wenn ihn Götter 20 stützen—Strong is the arm of man if the gods uphold it. Schiller.

Stars look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent places, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! Carlyle.

Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus / Omnibus est vitæ; sed famam extendere factis, / Hoc virtutis opus—Each man has his appointed day; short and irreparable is the brief life of all; but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is manhood's work. Virg.

States are to be called happy and noble in so far as they settle rightly who is slave and who free. Carlyle.

Statesmen that are wise / Shape a necessity, as sculptor clay, / To their own model. Tennyson.

Statio bene fida carinis—A safe harbourage for 25 ships. M.

Status quo ante bellum—The state in which the belligerents stood before war began.

Status quo, or Statu quo, or In statu quo—The state in which a matter was.

Stay awhile to make an end the sooner. Sir Amyas Paulet.

Steady, durable good cannot be derived from an external cause, by reason all derived from externals must fluctuate as they fluctuate. What then remains but the cause internal; in rectitude of conduct? James Harris.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred 30 years ago, but it is put to better use. Emerson.

Steckenpferde sind theurer als arabische Hengste—Hobby-horses are more expensive than Arab ones. Ger. Pr.

Steep and craggy is the path of the gods. Porphyry.

Steep regions cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. Goethe.

Stemmata quid faciunt? Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri?—What do pedigrees avail? Of what advantage, Ponticus, is it to be rated by the antiquity of your race? Juv.

Step by step one goes far. Pr. 35

Steps vary as much as the human face. J. M. Barrie.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in expounding and filling up, these are the two pinions on which history soars—or flutters and wabbles. Carlyle.

Stern daughter of the voice of God. Wordsworth, of Duty.

Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom. Burns.

Stet—Let it stand. 40

Stet fortuna domus—May the fortune of the house stand. M.

Stets ist die Sprache kecker als die That—Speech is always bolder than action. Schiller.

Stets liegt, wo das Banner der Wahrheit wallt, / Der Aberglaube im Hinterhalt—Where the banner of truth waves unfurled, there you will always find superstition lying in ambush. Platen.

Stets zu spät kommt gute Kunde, / Schlechte Kunde zu frühe—Good news comes always too late; bad, always too soon. Bodenstedt.

Steward or deputy may do well: but the lord 45 himself is obliged to stir in the administration of justice. Cervantes.

Stiff (a) and laboured manner is as bad in a letter as it is in conversation.... Sprightliness and wit are graceful in letters, just as they are in conversation. Blair.

Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, / Was everything by starts, and nothing long; / But in the course of one revolving moon / Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Dryden.

Still humanity grows dearer; / Being learned the more. Jean Ingelow.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, / To silence envious tongues. Henry VIII., iii. 2.

Still people are dangerous. La Fontaine.

Still raise for good the supplicating voice, / But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Johnson.

Still seems it strange that thou shouldst live for ever? Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. Young.

Still swine eat all the draff. Pr.

Still the sight of too great beauty blinds us, 5 and we lose / The sense of earthly splendours, gaining heaven. Lewis Morris.

Still the skies are opened as of old / To the entrancèd gaze, ay, nearer far / And brighter than of yore. Lewis Morris.

Still they gazed, and still the wonder grew / That one small head could carry all he knew. Goldsmith.

Still to the lowly soul / He doth Himself impart, / And for His cradle and His throne / Chooseth the pure in heart. Keble.

Still und bewegt—Still and yet moved. M. of Rahel.

Still waters run deep. Pr. 10

Stillest streams oft water finest meadows, / And the bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. Cowper.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least they must work their limbs or features. Holmes.

Stirb, Götz, du hast dich selbst überlebt—Die, Gotz; thou hast outlived thyself. Goethe.

Stirb und werde! / Denn so lang du das nicht hast, / Bist du nur ein trüber Gast / Auf der dunkeln Erde—Die and learn to live, for so far as thou hast not accomplished this, thou art but a darkened guest in a darkened world. Goethe.

Stirring spirits live alone: / Write on the 15 others, "Here lies such a one." George Herbert.

Sto pro veritate—I stand in the defence of truth. M.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Bible.

Stone masons collected the dome of St. Paul's, but Wren hung it in the air. Willmott.

Stony limits cannot hold love out; / And what love can do, that dares love attempt. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

Store of grain, O king! is the best of stores. 20 A gem cast into the mouth will not support life. Hitopadesa.

Store Ord giöre sielden from Gierning—Big words seldom accompany good deeds. Dan. Pr.

Storms make oaks take deeper root. Pr.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life; and few there be that find it. Jesus.

Strange cozenage! none would live past years again; / Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; / And from the dregs of life think to receive / What the first sprightly running could not give. Dryden.

Strange is the life of man, and fatal or fated 25 are moments, / Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine! Longfellow.

Strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift, hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale; will either blow out a pestilent scoundrel's brains, or the scoundrel's salutary sheriff's officer's (in a sense), as you please to choose, for your guinea. Carlyle.

Stranger or countryman to me / Welcome alike shall ever be. / To ask of any guest his name, / Or whose he is, or whence he came, / I hold can never be his part / Who owns a hospitable heart. Macedonius.

Straws show which way the wind blows. Pr.

Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. Mme. Swetchine.

Strength, instead of being the lusty child of 30 passions, grows by grappling with and throwing them. J. M. Barrie.

Strength needs support far more than weakness. A feather sustains itself long in the air. Mme. Swetchine.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Pope.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety, for this keeps the reason unclouded by passion. Pythagoras.

Strength was the virtue of Paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. Hare.

Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque / 35 Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est—Strenuous idleness gives us plenty to do; we seek to live aright by yachting and chariot-driving. What you are seeking for is here. Hor.

Strict laws are like steel bodices, good for growing limbs; but when the joints are knit, they are not helps, but burdens. Sir Francis Fane.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. J. F. Boyes.

Strictly speaking, the imagination is never governed; it is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is to it only as an instrument which it sounds, or a tablet on which it writes; clearly and sublimely if the wax be smooth and the strings true, grotesquely and wildly if they are stained and broken. Ruskin.

Strike, but hear me. Themistocles to Eurybiades before battle of Salamis.

Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! / 40 Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, / That make ungrateful man! Lear, iii. 2.

Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help. 1 Hen. VI., iii. 3.

Strike while the iron is hot. Pr.

Striking manners are bad manners. Robert Hall.

Strip the bishop of his apron, the counsellor of his gown, and the beadle of his cocked hat, what are they? Men, mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Dickens.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 45 Tam. of the Shrew, i. 2.

Strive not against the stream. Ecclus.

Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee. Goethe.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. Pr.

Strong character curdles itself out of the scum into its own place and power or impotence. Ruskin.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, gentle ones by permanence. Jean Paul.

Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above commonsense. Locke.

Strong feeling must create poetry. Moses 5 Harvey.

Strong folks have strong maladies. Ger. Pr.

Strong passions are the life of manly virtues. But they need not necessarily be evil because they are passions and because they are strong. The passions may be likened to blood horses, that need training and the curb only to enable them whom they carry to achieve the most glorious triumphs. Simms.

Strong reasons make strong actions. King John, iii. 4.

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, / Whom we that have not seen Thy face, / By faith, and faith alone, embrace, / Believing where we cannot prove. Tennyson.

Stronger than steel / Is the sword of the 10 spirit; / Swifter than arrows / The life of the truth is; / Greater than anger / Is love, and subdueth. Longfellow.

Strongest minds / Are often those of whom the noisy world / Hears least. Wordsworth.

Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Bacon.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Bacon.

Studiis et rebus honestis—By honourable studies and occupations. M.

Studiis florentem ignobilis oti—Indulging in the 15 studies of inglorious leisure. Virg.

Studio minuente laborem—The enthusiasm lessening the fatigue. Ovid.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace. Temple.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, / That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. Landor.

Study of the Bible will keep any man from 20 being vulgar in style. Coleridge.

Study the best and highest things that are, / But of thyself an humble thought retain. Sir J. Davis.

Study the past if you would divine the future. Confucius.

Study thyself; what rank or what degree / The wise Creator hath ordained for thee. Dryden.

Study to be quiet; contain yourself within your own business, and let the prying, censorious, the vain and the intriguing world follow their own devices. Thomas à Kempis.

Study to be what you wish to seem. John Bate. 25

Stulta maritali jam porrigit ora capistro—He is now stretching out his foolish head to the matrimonial halter. Juv.

Stultus nisi quod ipse facit, nil rectum putat—The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.

Stulti sunt inumerabiles—Fools are without number. Erasmus.

Stultitiam dissimulare non potes nisi taciturnitate—No concealing folly save by silence.

Stultitiam patiuntur opes—Riches allow one to 30 be foolish. Hor.

Stultitiam simulare loco, sapientia summa est—To affect folly on an occasion is consummate wisdom.

Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat—It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal uncured wounds. Hor.

Stultum est timere quod vitari non potest—It is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot be avoided. Syr.

Stultus es, rem actam agis—You are a fool; you do what has been done already. Plaut.

Stultus labor est ineptiarum—The labour is 35 foolish that is bestowed on trifles. Mart.

Stultus, qui, patre occiso, liberos relinquat—He who kills the father and leaves the children is a fool. Pr.

Stultus semper incipit vivere—The fool is always beginning to live. Pr.

Stunden der Noth vergiss, doch was sie dich lehrten, vergiss nie—Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. Gesser.

Stung by straitness of our life, made strait / On purpose to make sweet the life at large. Browning.

Stupid people and uneducated people do not 40 care for nice discriminations. They always have decided opinions. William Black.

Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent. Schopenhauer.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius. Wieland.

Stupidity is without anxiety. Goethe.

Sturm-und Drang-Periode—The storm-and-stress period. A literary period in Germany, the productions of which were inspired by a love of strong passion and violent action.

Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. 45

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. Schopenhauer.

Style is what gives value and currency to thought. Amiel.

Style may be defined, proper words in proper places. Swift.

Stylo inverso—With the back of the pen.

Stylum vertere—To change or correct the style. 50

Sua cuique Deus fit dira cupido—Each man makes his own dire passion a god. Virg.

Sua cuique quum sit animi cogitatio, / Colorque proprius—Since each man has a way of his own of thinking, and a peculiar temper. Phæd.

Sua cuique vita obscura est—Every man's life is dark to himself.

Sua cuique voluptas—Every man has his own liking.

Sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo pati—Every 55 one ought to bear patiently with what is after his own example. Phæd.

Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis / E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem!—How fascinating it is when on the great sea the winds have raised its waters into billows, to witness the perils of another from the land! Lucretius.

Suavis est laborum præteritorum memoria—Sweet is the memory of past trouble. Cic.

Suaviter et fortiter—Mildly and firmly. M.

Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re—Gentle in manner, resolute in deed. M.

"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re,"—I do not know any one rule so unexceptionably useful and necessary in every part of life. Chesterfield.

Sub cruce candida—Under the pure white 5 cross. M.

Sub cruce salus—Salvation under the cross. M.

Sub fine—At the end.

Sub hoc signo vinces—Under this sign (the cross) thou shalt conquer. M.

Sub initio—At the beginning.

Sub Jove—In the open air. 10

Sub judice lis est—The question is undecided.

Sub pœna—Under a penalty. L.

Sub reservatione Jacobæo—With St. James's reservation; viz., if the Lord will.

Sub rosa—Under the rose; confidentially.

Sub silentio—In silence, i.e., without notice being 15 taken.

Sub specie æternitatis—In the form of eternity, i.e., as a particular manifestation of a universal law.

Subdue fate, and exert human strength to the utmost of your power; and if, when pains have been taken, success attend not, in whom is the blame? Hitopadesa.

Sublata causa tollitur effectus—The cause removed, the effect is also. L.

Sublimer in this world know I nothing than a peasant saint, one that must toil outwardly for the lowest of man's wants, also toiling inwardly for the highest. Such a one will carry thee back to Nazareth itself. Carlyle.

Sublimi feriam sidera vertice—I shall strike the 20 stars with my uplifted head. Hor.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. Coleridge.

Submitting to one wrong often brings on another. Pr.

Subtilis veterum judex et callidus audis—You are known as a nice and experienced judge of things old. Hor.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. Oliver Cromwell.

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise, / 25 By simply meek. Milton.

Succedaneum—A substitute.

Success (by laws of competition) signifies always so much victory over your neighbour as to obtain the direction of his work and take the profits of it. This is the real source of all great riches. Ruskin.

Success consecrates the foulest crimes. Sen.

Success? If the thing is unjust, thou hast not succeeded. Carlyle.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends 30 on knowing how long it takes to succeed. Montesquieu.

Success in war, like charity in religion, covers a multitude of sins. Sir C. Napier.

Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. Ward Beecher.

Success is sweet; the sweeter if long delayed, and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. A. B. Alcott.

Success is the child of audacity. Disraeli.

Success makes men look larger, if reflection 35 does not measure them. Joubert.

Success makes success, as money makes money. Chamfort.

Success often costs more than it is worth. E. Wigglesworth.

Success tempts many to their ruin. Phædr.

Success throws a veil over the evil deeds of men. Demosthenes.

Success! to thee, as to a god, men bend the 40 knee. Æschylus.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts and puts it on our shoulders. Bovee.

Such a friend as speaketh kindly to a man's face, and behind his back defeateth his designs, is like a pot of poison with a surface of milk. Hitopadesa.

Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have is wont but seldom, in all its parts, to meet in one man; but its different parts generally spring up in different persons. Plato.

Such a plot must have a woman in it. Richardson.

Such as are careless of themselves can hardly 45 be mindful of others. Thales. (?)

Such as are in the married state wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in. Quoted by Emerson.

Such as every one is inwardly, so he judgeth outwardly. Thomas à Kempis.

Such as we are made of, such we be. Twelfth Night, ii. 2.

Such hath been—shall be—beneath the sun, / That many still must labour for the one. Byron.

Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling 50 mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. Dickens.

Such is the aspect of this shore; / 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! / So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, / We start, for soul is wanting there. Byron.

Such only enjoy the country as are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude, and in that case solitude is prepared for them. Dryden.

Such tricks hath strong imagination, / That, if it would but apprehend some joy, / It comprehends some bringer of that joy; / Or in the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.

Such war of white and red within her cheeks. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 5.

Suche die Wissenschaft als würdest ewig du 55 hier sein, / Tugend, als hielte der Tod dich schon am sträubenden Haar—Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. Herder.

Sucht nur die Menschen zu verwirren, / Sie zu befriedigen ist schwer—Seek only to mystify men; to satisfy them is difficult. Goethe, the theatre-manager in "Faust."

Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. Johnson.

Sudden love is the latest cured. La Bruyère.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather. Hare.

Sudden tumultuous popularity comes more from partial delirium on both sides than from clear insight, and is of evil omen to all concerned with it. Carlyle.

Suer sang et eau—To toil and moil (lit. sweat 5 blood and water). Fr. Phr.

Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Jesus.

Suffer no hour to slide by without its due improvement. Thomas à Kempis.

Suffer thyself to be led in everything but feeling and thinking. Sallet.

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious. 10 Ward Beecher.

Suffering is part of the divine idea. Ward Beecher.

Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise men. (?)

Suffering which falls to our lot in the course of nature, or by chance or fate, does not, "ceteris paribus," seem so painful as suffering which is inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. Schopenhauer.

Suffice unto thy good, though it be small, / For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness; (uncertainty) / Praise hath envie, and weal is blent o'er all. Chaucer.

Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. 15 Temple.

Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. Jesus.

Sufficiently provided from within, he has need of little from without. Goethe of the poet.

Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit orbis—A tomb now suffices for him for whom the world did not suffice. Apropos of Alexander the Great.

Suffundere malis hominis sanguinem, quam offundere—Seek rather to make a man blush for his guilt than to shed his blood. Ter.

Suggestio falsi—Suggestion of what is false. 20

Sui cuique mores fingunt fortunam—Every man's fortune is shaped for him by his own manners. Corn. Nep.

Sui generis—Of its own kind; of a kind of its own.

Sui juris—Of his own right. L.

Suis stat viribus—He stands by his own strength. M.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the 25 action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. Ham., iii. 2.

Suivez raison—Follow reason. M.

Sum quod eris, fui quod es—I am what you will be, I was what you are.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; / And in the morning what thou hast to do. George Herbert.

Sume superbiam quæsitam meritis—Assume the proud place your merits have won. Hor.

Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, æquam / 30 Viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, / Quid valeant humeri—Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities, and long ponder what your powers are equal to, and what they are unable to perform. Hor.

Summa bona putas, aliena vivere quadra—You think it the chief good to live on another's crumbs. Juv.

Summa petit livor—Envy aims very high. Ovid.

Summa sequor fastigia rerum—I will trace the principal heads of events. Virg.

Summa summarum—All in all. Plautus.

Summæ opes inopia cupiditatum—He is richest 35 who is poorest in his desires. Sen.

Summam nec metuas diem, nec optes—Neither fear nor wish for your last day. Mart.

Summum bonum—The chief good.

Summum crede nefas animam præferre pudori, / Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas—Consider it to be the height of impiety to prefer life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living, to sacrifice the objects of living. Juv.

Summum jus sæpe summa injuria est—The strictest justice is often grossest injustice. Cic.

[Greek: syn d' ananka pan kalon]—Whatever is beautiful 40 is beautiful by an inner necessity. Pindar.

Sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide / To light up worlds or wake an insect's mirth. Keble.

Sunday is the core of our civilisation, dedicated to thought and reverence. Emerson.

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, / 'Tis angels' music, therefore come not late. George Herbert.

Sunlight is painting. Hawthorne.

Sunrise is often lovelier than noon. Carlyle. 45

Sunt bona mixta malis, sunt mala mixta bonis—Good is mixed with evil, and evil with good.

Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura / Quæ legis—Of those which you read, some are good, some middling, and more are bad. Mart., of books.

Sunt delicta tamen, quibus ignovisse velimus—There are some faults, however, which we are willing to pardon. Hor.

Sunt Jovis omnia plena—All things are full of the Deity. Virg.

Sunt lacrymæ rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt—Tears 50 are due to misfortune, and mortal woes touch the heart. Virg.

Sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant—Boys are boys, and boys occupy themselves with boyish things.

Sunt superis sua jura—Even the gods above are subject to law. Ovid.

Suo Marte—By his own prowess. Cic.

Super subjectam materiam—Upon the matter submitted. L.

Superbo è quel cavallo che non si vuol portar 55 la biada—Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. It. Pr.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Mer. of Venice, i. 2.

Superior powers of mind and profound study are of no use if they do not sometimes lead a person to different conclusions from those which are formed by ordinary powers of mind without study. J. S. Mill.

Superior strength is found in the long-run to lie with those who had the right on their side. Froude.

Supersedeas—You may supersede. L.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, 5 fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. La Harpe.

Superstition is a misdirection of religious feeling. Whately.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of the gods. Cic.

Superstition is but the fear of belief; religion is the confidence. Lady Blessington.

Superstition is certainly not the characteristic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in politics who are infidels in religion. Junius.

Superstition is in its death-lair; the last 10 agonies may endure for decades or for centuries; but it carries the iron in its heart, and will not vex the earth any more. Carlyle.

Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do so with safety. Goethe.

Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. Carlyle.

Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition allies itself to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vitality of earthly desires we become superstitious, and by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. Mme. de Staël.

Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. Ruskin.

Superstition is the only religion of which base 15 souls are capable. Joubert.

Superstition is the poesy of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. Goethe.

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Carlyle.

Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing. Bacon.

Superstitions would soon die out if so many old women would not act as nurses to keep them alive. Punch.

Supple knees feed arrogance. Pr. 20

Suppose a neighbour should desire / To light a candle at your fire, / Would it deprive your flame of light / Because another profits by't. Lloyd.

Suppressing love is but opposing the natural dictates of the heart. Goldsmith.

Suppressio veri—Suppression of what is true.

Supra vires—Beyond one's powers. Hor.

Supremum vale—A last farewell. Ovid. 25

Sur esperance—In hope. M.

Surdo fabulam narras—You tell your story to a deaf man.

Sure as night follows day, / Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world, / When pleasure treads the path which reason shuns. Young.

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To fust in us unused. Ham., iv. 4.

Sure, of qualities demanding praise, / More go 30 to ruin fortunes, than to raise. Pope.

Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. Goldsmith.

Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. Hare.

Surely it is better to enclose the gulf and hinder all access, than by encouraging us to advance a little, to entice us afterwards a little further, and let us perceive our folly only by our destruction. Johnson.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. Johnson.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men 35 of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity. Bible.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere. Emerson.

Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in the field, and not wait till he plunders us in our very bed-chamber. Goldsmith.

Surely use alone / Makes money not a contemptible stone. George Herbert.

Surement va qui n'a rien—He who has nothing goes securely. Fr. Pr.

Surfeit has killed more than hunger. Pr. 40

Surfeit of the sweetest things / The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. Mid. N.'s Dream, ii. 3.

Surfeits destroy more than the sword. J. Fletcher.

Surgit post nubila Phœbus—The sun rises after the clouds. M.

Sursum corda—Lift up your hearts. L.

Surtout, messieurs, pas de zèle—Above all, 45 gentlemen, no zeal. Talleyrand.

Sus Minervam—A pig teaching Minerva.

Susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for a man the character of the universe. Emerson.

Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus, qui proximus destinaretur—Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. Tac.

Suspendens omnia naso—Sneering at everything. Hor.

Suspense is worse than disappointment. Burns.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; / The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 3 Hen. VI., v. 6.

Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own weight impedes more than protects. Byron.

Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to 5 happiness. Johnson.

Suspicion is the bane of friendship. Petrarch.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain. Dr. Johnson.

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes. 1 Hen. IV., v. 1.

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight; they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind. Bacon.

Suspicions are nothing when a man is really 10 true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. Hans Andersen.

Süsser Wein giebt sauern Essig—Sweet wine yields sour vinegar. Ger. Pr.

Sustine et abstine—Bear and forbear. M.

Suum cuique—To every man his due. M.

Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit—Posterity will pay every one his due. Tac.

Suus cuique est mos—Every one has his own 15 way of it. Hor.

Suus cuique mos—Every man has his way. Ter.

Suum cuique tribuere, ea demum summa justitia est—To give to every man his due, that is supreme justice. Cic.

Swearing is invoking the witness of a spirit to an assertion you wish to make, but cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit in a mischief you wish to inflict. Ruskin.

Sweep before your own door. Pr.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, / Which like 20 the toad, ugly and venomous, / Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; / And this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything. As You Like It.

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, / Most musical, most melancholy. Milton.

Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. Rich. III., ii. 4.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest birds. Milton.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect / Misshapes the beauteous form of things: / We murder to dissect. Wordsworth.

Sweet is true love though given in vain, / And 25 sweet is death that puts an end to pain. Tennyson.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Tit. Andron., i. 2.

Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! Sterne.

Sweet reader, do you know what a toady is? That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilised society. Disraeli.

Sweet Swan of Avon. Ben Jonson of Shakespeare.

Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance 30 made more sweet. Wordsworth.

Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay / In kindness takes the kindness all away. Anon.

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day. Lyte.

Sworn to no master, of no sect am I; / As drives the storm, at any door I knock, / And house with Montaigne now, and now with Locke. Pope.

Syllables govern the world. Coke.

Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative 35 about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths. George Eliot.

Sympathising and selfish people are alike given to tears. Leigh Hunt.

Sympathy can create the boldness which no other means can evoke. Dr. Parker.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. Amiel.

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. Talfourd.

Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the 40 rich there is consolation. Disraeli.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. C. H. Parkhurst.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. A. B. Alcott.

Sympathy with Nature is a part of the good man's religion. F. H. Hedge.

Syne as ye brew,... / Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill. Burns.