William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
| |
| Part I |
| |
| Dispatch |
| |
| |
| 388. Dispatch is a great and good Quality in an Officer; where Duty, not Gain, excites it. But of this, too many make their private Market and Over-plus to their Wages. Thus the Salary is for doing, and the Bribe, for dispatching the Business: As if Business could be done before it were dispatched: Or what ought to be done, ought not to be dispatch’d: Or they were to be paid apart, one by the Government, t’other by the Party. | 1 |
| 389. Dispatch is as much the Duty of an Officer, as doing; and very much the Honor of the Government he serves. | 2 |
| 390. Delays have been more injurious than direct Injustice. | 3 |
| 391. They too often starve those they dare not deny. | 4 |
| 392. The very Winner is made a Loser, because he pays twice for his own; like those that purchase Estates Mortgaged before to the full Value. | 5 |
| 393. Our Law says well, to delay Justice is Injustice. | 6 |
| 394. Not to have a Right, and not to come at it, differs little. | 7 |
| 395. Refuse or Dispatch is the Duty and Wisdom of a good Officer. | 8 |
| |
|
|
