My songs are just little letters to me.
Ani Difranco

Grammar is the grave of letters.
Elbert Hubbard

Never write a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb

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

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

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
John A. MacDonald

A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell

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

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

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
Mignon McLaughlin

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
Svetlana Alliluyeva

His sayings are generally like women’s letters; all the pith is in the postscript.
William Hazlitt

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

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun

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

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.
George Washington

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call.
Liz Carpenter

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D.H. Lawrence

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
Bob Garfield

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

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

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard

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

Then there’s the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
Lady Bird Johnson

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

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
Lord Byron

There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters… I could be their leader.
Charlie Brown

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
Jane Austen

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.
Edward Bulwer Lytton

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Lord Chesterfield

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

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.
Anatole Broyard

Or 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.
Ernest Hemingway

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

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Douglas Jerrold