There is something in the first essay of a young man, in any profession, like the first launching of a ship, which has a never-ceasing hold on human sympathies.
From different standpoints.
There is no study in human nature more interesting than the aspects of the same subject seen in the points of view of different characters. One might almost imagine that there were no such thing as absolute truth, since a change of situation or temperament is capable of changing the whole force of an argument.
Fine natures perverted.
As good wine makes the strongest vinegar, so fine nature perverted makes the worst vice.
SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS.
Lost confidence.
There are some people who involve in themselves so many of the elements which go to make up our confidence in human nature generally, that to lose confidence in them seems to undermine our faith in human virtue.