| Quotes |
Topic |
| Selfishness | Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. |
| Senses | The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. |
| Sentiment | Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. |
| Service | When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time. |
| Service | A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly. |
| Service | Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me. |
| Service | The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. |
| Shakespeare | The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| Shakespeare | Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. |
| Ships | The true ship is the ship builder. |
| Ships | When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going? |
| Shoemaking | The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. |
| Shoemaking | If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. |
| Simplicity | Nothing is more simple than greatness, indeed, to be simple is to be great. |
| Sincerity | Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. |
| Sincerity | Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. |
| Singing | Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so. |
| Skepticism | Skepticism is slow suicide. |
| Slavery | I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. |
| Speech | Speech is power, speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. |
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