“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man
does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he
deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see
that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his
actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits;
that relation and connection are not somewhere and
sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany,
no exemption, no anomaly, but method, and an
even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson