States are to be called happy and noble in so far as they settle rightly who is slave and who free. Carlyle.
Statesmen that are wise / Shape a necessity, as sculptor clay, / To their own model. Tennyson.
Statio bene fida carinis—A safe harbourage for 25 ships. M.
Status quo ante bellum—The state in which the belligerents stood before war began.
Status quo, or Statu quo, or In statu quo—The state in which a matter was.
Stay awhile to make an end the sooner. Sir Amyas Paulet.
Steady, durable good cannot be derived from an external cause, by reason all derived from externals must fluctuate as they fluctuate. What then remains but the cause internal; in rectitude of conduct? James Harris.
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred 30 years ago, but it is put to better use. Emerson.
Steckenpferde sind theurer als arabische Hengste—Hobby-horses are more expensive than Arab ones. Ger. Pr.
Steep and craggy is the path of the gods. Porphyry.