enigma quotes

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma.But perhaps there is a key; that key is Russian national interest.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Radio broadcast,1 Oct.

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.4.