There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs - then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order - that is the important thing.

Good order is the foundation of all great things.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.