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 imagoScience is but an image of the truth. Bacon. Scientia popinæ-The art of cookery. 5 Scientia quæ est remota a justitia, calliditas 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.

10 Scio cui credidi-I know in whom I have believed 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. 15 Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est-To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning. Scire volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemoAll 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.

20 Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree; 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. 25 Screw not the chord too sharply lest it snap. 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 defini- 30 tions. 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. 4Second 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.

5 Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. Jeremy 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.

10 Secreta hæc murmura vulgi-Those secret whisperings 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.

15 Secundis dubiisque rectus-Upright, whether in 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. 20 Security, / Is mortals' chiefest enemy. Macbeth, 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 my. self. 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.

25 Sed notat hunc omnis domus et vicinia tota, / Introrsum turpem, speciosum pelle decoraBut 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 facitA 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. Boden stedt.

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. 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.

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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.

5 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call 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; every-
where 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. 10 Seeking the bubble reputation, / Even in the 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.

15 Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not 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 fiveand-thirty. Much Ado, iii. 3.

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

Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, / Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibusWhat 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 sam. melt;/ 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. Fr.

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. Saving.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong char-40 acter, 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. Bovec. 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.

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

10 Self loves itself best. Pr.

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. Emer

son.

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

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 findetHappy he whom he (Death) finds in battle's splendour. Goethe.

20 Selig wer sich vor der Welt, Ohne Hass 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.

M.

manebunt--Thy honour, thy renown, and thy praises shall live for ever. Virg. Semper idem-Always the same. 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. Pr.

It.

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. 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.

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follow me. Jesus.

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

Semel malus, semper præsumitur esse malusOnce bad is to be presumed always bad. Z. Semen est sanguis Christianorum-The blood of us Christians is seed. Tertullian.

25 Semper ad eventum festinat--Ile always hastens to the goal, or issue. M.

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. Bovce. Sensuality is the grave of the soul, Chan

ning.

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.

5 Sentimentalism is that state in which a man 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

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.

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. 10 Sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis-And he follows his father with unequal steps. Virg. Sequor nec inferior-I follow, but am not in

ferior. 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.

15 Series implexa causarum — The complicated 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.

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

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. 25 Serus in cœlum redeas diuque / Lætus intersis 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.

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.

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. 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.

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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 tragoedia-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.