Letters

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. – Phyllis Theroux

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. – Lord Byron

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. – Author Unknown

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. – Elizabeth Drew

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. – William Shenstone

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. – John Donne

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. – Sigmund Freud

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. – Richard Steele, Spectator

The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. – Henry Tilney

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. – Francis Bacon, "Of Cunning," Essays

It consisted of a half-sheet of letter-paper, folded in the fashion of those days when as yet the envelope was undiscovered… – J.C. Atkinson, “Witch Stories and Witch Antidotes,” Forty Years in a Moorland Pa

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick

[Y]our letterâ€”your dear, warm, true-hearted letter â€” was put in my hand. I kissed it how many times before breaking its envelope! – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun

All a good letter has to do is make you feel special. – Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Ar