The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the "ne plus ultra" of art. What insult is so keen, or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? Julia Kavanagh.
The slow wheel turns, / The cycles round themselves and grow complete, / The world's year whitens to the harvest-tide, / And one word only am I (Psyche) sent to say ... / To all things living, and the word is "Love." Lewis Morris.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Bible.
The sly shadow steals away upon the dial, and the quickest eye can discover no more but that it is gone. Glanville.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater 50 ennoble it. Bovee.
The smallest annoyances disturb us most. Montaigne.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fibre. Lew Wallace.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on; / And doves will peck, in safeguard of their brood. 3 Henry VI., ii. 2.
The smoke of a man's own house is better than the fire of another's. Pr.
The snail sees nothing but his own shell, and thinks it the grandest place in the world. Pr.