“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”

“Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.”

“A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job.”

“I think it's good to be your own person. But individuality is a mixed blessing. People who are 'different' are isolated.”

“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

“I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems”

“The problem is that sex is the most dangerous way of trying to achieve personal growth, because the life force has mixed it so liberally with a string sense of "magic", which, in the attempt at possession turns out to be an illusion. The attempt to possess a woman through an act of sex is as frustrating as trying to possess the scent of a rose by cooking and eating it.”

“If God try our faith it is to show His faithfulness, and we shall lose the blessing by appeals etc.”

“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”

“Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing.”