Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
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