inscrutable quotes

When you notice a cat in profound meditation The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,'The Naming of Cats'.

Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful,Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

-James Grover Thurber
  'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', in the NewYorker,18 Mar.