[…] idea of an infallible compilation of writings of the actual character of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures with every man his own interpreter thereof.

I remember how alien this seemed to me, having being brought up in a biological school that thought of instincts in the plural. But the same fondness for pairs is to be found again and again: love-hate; exhibitionism-scopophilism; etc. It is as if Freud had a difficulty in contemplating any topic unless he could divide it into two opposites, and never more than two.

Anyone looking for a kitten should consider that it is a tiny bundle of energy.

Vliss.: ... One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-borne gaudes, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And goe to dust, that is a little guilt, More laud then guilt ore-dusted.