Quotes on Letter Writing

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 have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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

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

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.