As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

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

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.

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