„Der kürzeste Weg, um vieles zu erledigen, ist, immer nur eine Sache zu machen.“
Selbsthilfe
"Method," said Cecil (afterwards Lord Burleigh), "is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one." Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once;" - Self-Help. Revised and enlarged edition. Boston 1861 p.260 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=P5EWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA260&dq=cecil. Nach der „new edition“ London 1868 p.271 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=WrQGd8vis98C&pg=PA271&dq=reverendsoll es sich um Reverend Richard Cecil [1748–1810] handeln.