Part I. Dispatch. William Penn. 1909-14. Fruits of Solitude. The Harvard Classics

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