Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
146
AUTHOR:
William Penn (16441718)
QUOTATION:
Method goes far to prevent Trouble in Business: For it makes the Task easy, hinders Confusion, saves abundance of Time, and instructs those that have Business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
ATTRIBUTION:
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections & Maxims,no. 403, p. 70 (1903, reprinted 1976).