A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.
The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.
For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Never write a letter while you are angry.
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