The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
Source: Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments, Economy and Benevolence, 1794.
-- Joseph Addison, (May 1 1672-1719), English poet, essayist, playwright; He was a regular contributor to The Tatler (1709-11).