All successful men have agreed in one thing, --they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

All successful men have agreed in one thing, --they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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