Notes From an Old Prayer Book

opened randomly I read:

"Where there is no rule there  is no order," says Father Hanson. "We live by caprice and fancies. With a rule of life, on the contrary, all is done in an orderly manner; each duty has it's proper time set apart for it; nothing is forgotten; nothing is done in haste or in a careless manner. Thanks to a rule of life, all is done well; and that which is true in regard to order is equally so in regard to practices of piety. With a rule of life they are done with exactittude; without a rule of life they have no fixed hour; we defer them, and then again we defer them, and we finish by ommitting them entirely."

We have some good old proverbs on the value or order and method:
"Order is heavens first law." Pope
"To him who does everything in it's proper time one day is worth three."
"Method will teach you to win time."-Goethe
there is a time to fish and a time to dry nets." -from the Chinese pg 194