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.