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.