Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt read more

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.

Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant read more

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till at his second read more

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 a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.

Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.

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

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

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery read more

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.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Let all things be done decently and in order.