All history is a lie!
The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.