MYSTERY

Related Subjects: Concealment, Murder, Obscurity, Secrecy, Superstition

1. A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.—LORD CHESTERFIELD
   

2. We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation, in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason, because it happens to be above it.—C. C. COLTON
   

3. Mystery is but another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.—TRYON EDWARDS
   

4. My name is John Wellington Wells,
   I'm a dealer in magic and spells,
   In blessings and curses
   And ever-filled purses,
   And prophecies, witches, and knells.—W. S. GILBERT, The Sorcerer
   

5. The most consistent materialist is willing to admit that there is an unknown and possibly unknowable mystery surrounding existence, of which he stands in some awe, without presuming to formulate any idea of the nature of that mystery.—SIR OLIVER LODGE, Demonstrated Survival
   

6. It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.—ANTOINE DE RIVAROL
   

7. Pluck out the heart of my mystery.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

8. The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.—ARTHUR SYMONS,
   The Symbolist Movement in Literature
   

9. A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.—JEREMY TAYLOR