The mystery of folded sleep. [ Tennyson ]

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform. [ Cowper ]

Mystery and innocence are not akin. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Expression is the mystery of beauty. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

What probing deep
Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? [ T. B. Aldrich ]

There is a profound charm in mystery. [ Chatfield ]

Mystery is for the favoured of fortune. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Mystery has great charms for womanhood. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Mystery of waters, - never slumbering sea! [ Montgomery ]

Mystery hovers over all things here below. [ Lamartine ]

The heavens are full of floating mysteries. [ T. B. Read ]

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries. [ George Eliot ]

No man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate. [ Bodenstedt ]

Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. [ Richard Cecil ]

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. [ Madame Necker ]

Kind messages, that pass from land to land;
Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history.
In which we feel the pressure of a hand,
One touch of fire - and all the rest is mystery! [ Longfellow ]

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. [ J. G. Holland ]

A religion without its mysteries is a temple without a God. [ Robert Hall ]

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. [ Rivarol ]

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. [ Johnson ]

The curious questioning eye, that plucks the heart of every mystery. [ Grenville Mellen ]

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil. [ Byron ]

There is no religion without mystery. God Himself is the great secret of nature. [ Chateaubriand ]

There needs a long apprenticeship, to understand the mystery of the world's trade. [ Proverb ]

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. [ Beaconsfield ]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. [ William Shakespeare,Hamlet ]

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones. [ Chesterfield ]

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. [ Thomas Paine ]

Man is an eternal mystery, even to himself. His own person is a house which he never enters, and of which he studies but the outside. [ E. Souvestre ]

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body. [ Colton ]

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it - to realize it to the full - to be a profound and inscrutable mystery. [ Bovee ]

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours. [ Burke ]

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire. [ Carlyle ]

Most men take least notice of what is plain, as if that was of no use; but puzzle their thoughts to be themselves in those vast depths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom. [ Bishop Sherlock ]

For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last. [ William Mountford ]

The deep mellow voice of the waves of the mighty deep is full of mystery and awe; and the ocean moaning over the dead it holds in its bosom, lulls them to unbroken slumbers in the chambers of its unfathomable depths. [ Haliburton ]

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor. [ Napoleon I ]

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words - mank and ind. What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage! [ Frederic Saunders ]

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]

Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness is the sign of creation; consciousness, at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in this existence of ours, is the significance of mystery. [ Carlyle ]

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]