The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.