The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.