Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

I died for beauty, but was scarce adjusted in the tomb, when one who died for truth was lain in an adjoining room.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.