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Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten read more
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.
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was read more
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts read more
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.
There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters read more
There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without read more
Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .