Fiction is the microscope of truth. [ Lamartine ]
Taste is the microscope of the judgment. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of judgment. [ Rousseau ]
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. [ Chesterfield ]
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. [ Lavater ]
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass. [ Hazlitt ]
It is particularly worth observation that the more we magnify, by the assistance of glasses, the works of nature, the more regular and beautiful they appear, while it is quite different in respect to those of art, for when they are examined through a microscope we are astonished to find them so rough, so coarse and uneven, although they have been done with all imaginable care, by the best workmen. [ Sterne ]
If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]