It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.—Boileau.
There are sins of omission as well as those of commission.—Madame Deluzy.
Sincerity.—Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.—Tillotson.
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.—Coleridge.
Skepticism.—Skepticism is slow suicide.—Emerson.
Skill.—Nobody, however able, can gain the very highest success, except in one line. He may rise above others, but he will fall below himself.—Charles Buxton.
Whatever may be said about luck, it is skill that leads to fortune.—Walter Scott.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.—Gibbon.
Slander.—Done to death by slanderous tongues.—Shakespeare.
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true, but there is the slime.—Douglas Jerrold.