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

Style is what gives value and currency to thought. Amiel.

Style may be defined, proper words in proper places. Swift.

Stylo inverso—With the back of the pen.

Stylum vertere—To change or correct the style. 50

Sua cuique Deus fit dira cupido—Each man makes his own dire passion a god. Virg.

Sua cuique quum sit animi cogitatio, / Colorque proprius—Since each man has a way of his own of thinking, and a peculiar temper. Phæd.

Sua cuique vita obscura est—Every man's life is dark to himself.

Sua cuique voluptas—Every man has his own liking.

Sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo pati—Every 55 one ought to bear patiently with what is after his own example. Phæd.

Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis / E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem!—How fascinating it is when on the great sea the winds have raised its waters into billows, to witness the perils of another from the land! Lucretius.