"These sentiments, sir, and the style they are conveyed in, may be offensive perhaps, because they are new to you. Accustomed to the language of courtiers, you measure their affections by the vehemence of their expressions; and when they only praise you indifferently you admire their sincerity."--Let. 35. "Like a stream of water." "Like a rapid torrent." "Slave in buff." "Cream-colored parasite." "My creed in politics." "Political creed we profess." "Expressed myself over-warmly." "Passionate language." "By following the passion and stupidity of the pilot you wrecked the vessel within sight of the shore." Applied to England. "In the shipwreck of the state, trifles float and are preserved, while every thing solid and valuable sinks to the bottom and is lost forever." "It needs no painting of mine to set it off, for nature can only do it justice." "The works of a master require no index; his features and coloring are taken from nature." "She [England] set out with the title of parent or mother country. The association of ideas which naturally accompany this expression are filled with every thing that is fond, tender, and forbearing. They have an energy peculiar to themselves, and overlooking the accidental attachment of natural affection apply with infinite _softness_ to the first feelings of the heart." "With all his mother's _softness_." [Mr. Paine argued against this title of "mother country" being applied to England. And what is remarkable, Junius was never betrayed into it, even with all his prejudice in favor of the English nation hanging about him. In Letter 1, he speaks of England as having "alienated the colonies from their natural affection to their _common_ country," and in no place says parent or mother country. This fact is a striking parallel.] "That men never turn rogues without turning fools, is a maxim sooner or later universally true."--Crisis, iii. "There is a proverb concerning persons in the predicament of this gentleman, 'They commence dupes, and finish knaves.'"--Let. 49. "The corrupt and abandoned court of Britain." "Corruption glitters in the van, collects and maintains a standing army of mercenaries." "Trembling duplicity of a spaniel." "In that state of abandoned servility and prostitution." ... "The ministry, abandoned as they are." "Agony of a wounded mind." "When the mind is tortured." "Compound of reasons." "Compound his ideas."