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Let all things be done decently and in order.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him. Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

To make the plough go before the horse.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where tho' all things differ, all agree.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house. I am sent, with broom, before, To sweep the dust behind the door.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.