Si l'ordre est le plaisir de la raison, le désordre est le délice de l'imagination. - Paul Claudel

Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its ‘manner,’ in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.

Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.

There is something sadder to lose than life – the reason for living;
Sadder than to lose one's possessions is to lose one's hope.