" Roosevelt’s revulsion at Tolstoy’s infantile, pathetic, endearing bon vivant—his categorical interpretation of healthy relationships versus unhealthy relationships—reveals a deep-seated disgust with physical and moral slackness that would remain with him for the rest of his life. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism