• Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

    Henry Ward Beecher: Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
    HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.109