Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin

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.

The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.

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

I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon