What are mysteries?

Famous quotes containing the word mysteries:

“Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

“The mysteries remain,
I keep the same
cycle of seed-time
and of sun and rain;”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)