What we now call school training the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night as from the cradle to the grave it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Learning is the ally not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit can scarcely read too much.

My object will be if possible to form Christian men for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope how much further wilt thou lead me?

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but oh get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is and how evil you all are and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful kindly sunshiny old age.