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.

Parents.—­The sacred books of the ancient Persians say:  “If you would be holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.”—­Montesquieu.

Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that of parents toward their children.  An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is unnatural.—­Addison.

Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection:  love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being:  for “Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.”—­Jeremy Taylor.

Next to God, thy parents.—­William Penn.

Whoever makes his father’s heart to bleed,
Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. 
—­Randolph.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board.  It is like the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he has planted.—­SCOT’S magazine.

With joy the parent loves to trace
Resemblance in his children’s face: 
And, as he forms their docile youth
To walk the steady paths of truth,
Observes them shooting into men,
And lives in them life o’er again. 

          
                          —­Lloyd.

Honor thy father and thy mother:  that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.—­Exodus 20:12.

Passion.—­The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.—­Dr. Watts.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.—­Colton.