It is fitting that we should have buried the unknown Prime Minister by the side of the Unknown Soldier.

-Asquith
  Remark at the Westminster  Abbey funeral of Bonar Law, 5 Nov.

But love a womman that she woot it nought, And she wol quyte it that thow shalt nat fele; Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk.1, l.807^9.

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Givemea lightthat Imay tread safely intotheunknown.' Hawking And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'

-Haskins, Minnie Louise
  Desert,'God Knows'. Quoted by King George VI, Christmas address, 25 Dec1939.

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Letter to Richard Watson Dixon, 29 Oct. Collected in C C Abbott (ed)  The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).

Le suicide, cette myste¤  rieuse voie de fait sur l'inconnu. Suicide: that mysterious route towards the unknown.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.5, bk.3, ch.10.

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

-Lamb, Charles
  'Hester', stanza 7.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

-Locke,John
Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

Abandon yourself to Nature's truths, and let nothing in this world be unknown to you.

-Rabelais, Fran c° ois
Quoted inJ H Plumb (ed) The Horizon Book of the Renaissance (1961).

The point is the seeingöthe grace beyond recognition, the ways of the bird rising, unnamed, unknown, beyond the range of language, beyond its noun. Eyes open on growing, flying, happening, and go on opening. Manifold, the world dawns on unrecognizing, realizing eyes. Amazement is the thing. Not love, but the astonishment of loving.

-Reid, Alastair
  Weathering,'Growing, Flying, Happening'.

El orbe hispano nunca se vino abajo, ni siquiera a la ca|¤da del imperio espan‹  ol, sino que se ha multiplicado en numerosas facetas de ensanches todav|¤a insospechados† No somos pueblos en estado de candor, que se deslumbren fa¤  cilmente con los instrumentos externos de que se acompan‹  a la cultura, sino pueblos que heredan una vieja civilizacio¤  n y exigen la excelencia misma de la cultura. The Hispanic world never crumbled, not even after the Spanish Empire fell, but instead has multiplied itself in broad ways that are still largely unknown† Our people are not naive and are not blinded by the external tools that go together with culture; we are rather the inheritors of an old civilization, and we demand the excellence proper to culture itself.

-Reyes, Alfonso
Pa¤  ginas escogidas,'Valor de la literatura hispanoamericana' (translated as'TheValue of Hispanic American Literature').

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

-Schweitzer, Albert
  Von Reimarus zuWrede (translated byW Montgomery as The Quest for the HistoricalJesus,1910).

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: Aviolet bya mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! öFair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!

-Wordsworth,William
  'She dwelt among the untrodden ways', complete poem (published1800).