“A man is never wholly unhappy when he is writing verses.”

Suggesting that the creative act itself can provide consolation amid difficulty · Essay, Robert Herrick, in Ponkapog Papers (1903)

• Happiness
• Poetry
• Writing

“The claim of this country to call itself 'The Land of the Free' must be held in abeyance until every man in it, whether he belongs or does not belong to a labor organization, shall have the right to work for his daily bread.”

Defining liberty partly through an individual's freedom to work without coercion · Ponkapog Papers, Leaves from a Note Book (1903)

• Freedom
• Society
• Work

“The idea of repeopling old battlefields with the shades of vanished hosts is not novel.”

Reflecting on the enduring imaginative power of places marked by warfare and death · Essay, A Note on L'Aiglon, in Ponkapog Papers (1903)

• Imagination
• Memory
• War