It is not ease, but effort,—not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.—Samuel Smiles.
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.—Goethe.
Order.—Order is heaven's first law.—Pope.
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.—Joubert.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.—Southey.
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.
—Shakespeare.
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.—Blair.
Let all things be done decently and in order.—1 Corinthians 14:40.
Paradise.—Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.—Longfellow.
Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.—Bartol.