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OPINION—ORDER—PARDON.

OPINION.

The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men, which is the wall of defense around property and life.


It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits than to say that our lives depend upon our opinions, which is only now and then true.


ORDER.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State.


Order is the law of all intelligible existence.


Order is heaven's first law.

Pope.

P.

PARDON.

God forgives; forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine prëarrangement; forgives universally, on the ground of an atonement, and on the condition of repentance and faith.