“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
“Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.”
“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.”
“[The U.S. worker] gets to appear at his least national when he is working and at his most national at leisure, with his family or in semipublic worlds of other men producing surplus manliness (e.g. via sports).”