Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

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 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 indulgence in grief is a blunder.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.