The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.