Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 2
All the forenoon down in the Library; reading and writing. Pass'd the afternoon at my uncle Adams's. There was some conversation concerning Mr. T——r.1 He has not many friends I believe in Braintree. I believe him at best a very imprudent man, or as Horace says of a character something like him
Royall Tyler.
“Never was a creature so inconsistent,” Horace, Satires, Bk. I, Satire 3, lines 18–19 (
Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica
, transl. Fairclough, p. 32–33).