“In other callings of life there exists a convention that what a man has made shall be his own and his children’s after him.”

Contrasting literary property with ordinary assumptions about ownership. · Speech, The Handicaps of Letters, 1908

• Property
• Work
• Writing

“I have had the honour of meeting many such men of many nationalities, explorers of sand-buried cities and bold hunters of meridians across unexplored mountains.”

Celebrating the international community of explorers and their varied achievements. · Speech, The Verdict of Equals, 1912

• Adventure
• Discovery
• Travel

“I confess there is something, to me as terrible as it is touching, in the thought of the men even now scattered under the shadow of death.”

Expressing admiration mixed with apprehension for explorers facing extreme danger. · Speech, The Verdict of Equals, 1912

• Adventure
• Courage
• Danger