life-quests

Updated: May 3, 2025

Baseball and billiards are great games, but as life-quests except for the few consummately adapted players whose little orbit of powers finds completion in diamond or green-baized rectangle the excessive devotion to such play is desolating, indeed, and that which is given in return is fickle and puerile adulation. A man's work is the highest play.

Will Levington Comfort - Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation