Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

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.