=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.