We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.

A weak mind is like a microscope which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.