• How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

    Christian Nestell Bovee: How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.13