There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Love. . . is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.
My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.
There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.
Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.
Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
Restoring prayer. . . will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.